INTERVIEW
He doesn't mince words about Franck Riester. Like Benjamin Biolay a few days ago, Richard Berry lambasted Friday the "lack of involvement" of the Minister of Culture during the coronavirus crisis. While he goes back on stage from June 22 as part of an operation whose benefits will accrue in particular to caregivers, the actor believes at the microphone of Europe 1 that Franck Riester did not protect the economy of the show these last months.
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"Excessive" measures
"We did not hear much, he did not really take the measure of the gravity of this crisis for the spectacle, for the culture in general, and I find that we are very mistreated", tackle he. The actor criticizes in particular the cancellation of many summer festivals for health reasons and judges the phenomenon "far too violent". "It could have been played, I don't understand why we don't allow people to go to festivals, why we put so many technicians and intermittent workers out of work. It's excessive, when we can take the train together and the TGVs will be crowded [this summer]. "
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"The biggest damage of confinement" will be in "the economy of the spectacle"
While the government has launched plans to come to the aid of the automobile, tourism, and aeronautics, Richard Berry does not understand why a similar measure has not been put in place for the world of culture. He also anticipates that in the long term, it is in "the economy of the spectacle that the greatest damage will be caused by this confinement".