INTERVIEW
It's a TV program that is shaking up. The guy sitting in his couch will surely be as entangled in curiosity as embarrassed by his own prejudices. Because the documentary series But why do they hate us? dismantle the stereotypes. After putting the spotlight on the Jews, the Arabs and the blacks in season one, the homosexuals, the women and the poor in season 2, here come the old, the sick and the big ones in the light of this season 3.
The characters are respectively played by Marcel Amont, Pierre Ménès and Charlotte Gaccio. They were the guests of Patrick Cohen in It Happened Tomorrow to present these new episodes that will be broadcast from Tuesday, October 1 at 20:55 on Planète +.
Grossophobia, social media playgrounds
If they are big, it's their fault. Here is the prejudice "we try to deconstruct," says Charlotte Gaccio. "Being fat is not a question of will," she says. But the documentary shows that this is not everyone's opinion. To begin with children, far from being tender. "All children put aside the fat child (...) They are already discriminating." Grossophobia does not get better with age. Witness Pierre Ménès, who was obese: "If you go on my social networks, people who do not like me, it's immediately 'big pig'," he says.
Charlotte Gaccio faced the same kind of degrading remarks at the announcement of her pregnancy. "It was absolutely filthy, when you say something as nice as a desired pregnancy, it's a bit violent, I really got it in my mouth," says actress, daughter of Michele Bernier and Bruno Gaccio.
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I was obese and it was completely my fault. I paid the bill
Marcel Amont, 90, can also testify to the hatred that can generate his few decades on the clock. "I was outright attacked," he says, not to mention insurers who refuse to take over his show.
Pierre Ménès embodies the perhaps most original and painful part of the season. He who has been very ill and has undergone a double transplant highlights the triptych which puts aside a large number of patients: guilt, immobility and humiliation.
"Something that can happen to us all"
"I was obese and it was all my fault, I was eating too much, my loins dropped, my liver dropped, I paid the bill," he says, to explain the guilt component. "Immobility is five months in a wheelchair and bedridden, and humiliation is because the hospital is to be naked in bed, to take care of oneself in bed, it's people who give you food, clean you up and again, I have fallen extremely well. " He adds that it measures his chance to have returned to his professional life before, unlike some in the documentary, like this notary excluded from his study or this HIV positive who can not find a dentist for a descaling .
We must also think that this season is also striking because it is because these groups - the fat, the sick, the old - "embody our fears," says Charlotte Gaccio. "Because it's something that can happen to us all."