He goes up on the boards, or almost. While the theaters are closed, confinement requires, François Berléand will nevertheless be on stage Saturday evening ... but on television. France 2 is broadcasting a filmed version of the play "Deux hommes tout nus", by and with Sébastien Thiéry, in which the actor of the Choristers plays the main role. The day before, in the program "Culture Médias" presented by Philippe Vandel on Europe 1, François Berléand returned to this role both tragic and burlesque.
"The same scene is replayed differently"
The pitch of the piece is not trivial. "I wake up naked in my bed, but next to me, there is a man," says François Berléand, who plays Alain Kramer, a lawyer. "I go get my rifle and there, surprised, I discover that it is one of my collaborators." This is followed by a ten minute conversation during which the two men try to reconstruct the evening that led them there. And they are just beginning to understand when the wife of Alain Kramer, played by Isabelle Gélinas, arrives.
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"With Sébastien Thiéry's theater, we are in the same scene dressed three times", warns François Berléand. "There are three acts and the same scene is replayed in a different way, with different stakes." It has been six years since "Deux hommes tout nus" was edited for the first time. At the time, the actor's interpretation had won him rave reviews. "But we only remember the bad," he jokes today.
For those nostalgic for evenings at the theater and those who would like to catch up on a play "for all audiences" despite its title, "Deux hommes tout nus" will be broadcast at 11:30 pm on France 2, in partnership with Europe 1.