INTERVIEW
The actor, scriptwriter and director Pascal Légitimus was on Europe 1 Monday. Famous as a member of the comic trio Les Inconnus, he published L'alphabetisier, a voyage in unknown terms to Michel Lafon.
"The idea is not of me, in all modesty, but Gilbert Jouin, journalist emeritus and known to the trade, who loves to play with the words Together we took words to add a letter or, on the contrary , remove one, "explains Pascal Légitimus. He gives an example: "Deposit-sale becomes deposit-belly, definition: woman carrier". The two men worked the words for a year between neologisms, false epitaphs, maxims, songs: "We made digressions in all areas and the words are happy".
"Shocking", the title of the autobiography of Daniel Toscan du Plantier
Another word: "to please". Here is the definition: make a lie more pleasant to hear. Among the other words: upsetting. This one has a very particular origin since it was invented by the Unknown to make fun of snobbery and art. It is found in the dictionary of Pascal Légitimus and Gilbert Jouin in title of the autobiography of the producer Daniel Toscan du Plantier.
"It was Didier who played his character, Didier planted himself, he made a lot of quality films that did not work very well, we wanted to caricature a bit of the bad side of cinema". To learn more, the alphabet, travel in unknown terms is sold by Michel Lafon editions.