INTERVIEW
Jalil Lespert, initially, is an actor. Since 2007, he is also a director, to whom we owe Yves Saint Laurent (2014), the Versailles series (2015) and Le Dindon , a comedy that will be released in September. On the other hand, there is one thing Jalil Lespert can not do: music.
"I'm completely nil," he says at the microphone of the "Europe Summer Club" 1, Monday. Which does not stop him from loving that. "I am very sensitive to music in general and maybe very frustrated not to be a musician so I surround myself with good musicians." For Yves Saint Laurent , he worked with trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf. It is Ludovic Bource, to whom we owe, among others, the soundtracks of the OSS of Michel Hazanavicius, who worked on the partition of the turkey .
"Henry Mancini was one of our references"
With a model in mind: the American composer Henry Mancini, author of the music of the Pink Panther or the "Moon River" sung by Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's . "Of course, Mancini was one of our references and we work by sticking to two or three well-known references," says Jalil Lespert.
The director also relies on contemporary artists. He chose a music group M83 for the credits of the series Versailles . And closely follows the news (or rediscovery) musical. In Jalil Lespert's playlist right now? "I downloaded Chance the rapper, Labi Siffre, a very good musician, the last piece of Bonobo, Dj Snake that I did not know, and then an old thing from the 1990s," Confetti's "from The Sound of C. "