For four seasons, the character of Narcisse Lalanne has given a hard time to the candidates of Fort Boyard . This year, its interpreter, Francis Lalanne, is causing concern for the production of the show. According to Le Parisien , the singer seized the defender of rights, Jacques Toubon, because of discrimination after being excluded from the new season of the program.
According to the 61-year-old singer, the production would have justified his temporary shelving by his age and the current sanitary situation, complicated to manage on a building such as Fort Boyard. “But Yann Le Gac, who plays Father Fouras, is 65 years old. Then I was told about an insurance problem. Very well, I was ready to have my own insurance, like Vincent Lagaf '. Except that for me, it was oddly not possible, “he explains.
Discarded because of "yellow vests"?
For the interpreter of Narcisse, his age is not the real reason for his disappearance from the game. According to him, it would rather go to dig on the side of his political ambitions. "It is only because of my commitment to the" yellow vests "! But what ? An artist would no longer have the right to be a citizen? It is an insult to France. I have always fought with the weakest. I am a knight. There, we touch my chivalry, "he jumped.
Me Stéphane Hasbanian, the lawyer for the Fort Boyard production company , refutes these accusations in the columns of Le Parisien . "It was decided for purely editorial reasons not to maintain the character of Narcisse Lalanne in 2020," he justifies. This comes from the normal life of a program. Fort Boyard has existed for thirty years. To last so long, it has always been necessary to develop it. "
Francis Lalanne does not intend to stop there and would like to export his character in another program. But the road seems strewn with pitfalls, the production owning all the intellectual property of its characters.
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