INTERVIEW
"Yes, I think it was detrimental to me, in a number of cases." Journalist, writer and antispeciesist activist, Aymeric Caron is best known to the general public for his On n'est pas couché years . From 2012 to 2015, he took on the role of "sniper" - one of the two columnists responsible for interacting with the guests, alongside Natacha Polony at the time - in Laurent Ruquier's program, on France 2. Guest of There is not only one life in life , Sunday on Europe 1, he returned to this period punctuated by sometimes tense sequences, which left him only one regret.
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"The things I said, a lot of people meant them"
"I was not playing a role," said Aymeric Caron when asked about his muscular exchanges with certain guests. “During the first year at least, I really wanted to prove that I had my place, that I knew how to titillate the guests,” he admits, however. "As I had decided to do this job without cheating, maybe at times, I forgot to put some filters. But in reality, the things I said, I think a lot of people were thinking them in front of me. their television. Or they didn't agree with me, but they would have expressed themselves in the same way. "
A "franchise" that we "are not used to seeing on television" and "which may have surprised", admits the journalist, however, considering that "in reality, when you make the list of all the shows that I 've been able to record for three years, there have been very few' fights', clashes ". Her discussions with Véronique Genest, Bernard-Henri Lévy or Tristane Banon, in 2013, had in particular caused much ink to flow.
"When you are an interviewer, there are things that you will refrain from saying," said Aymeric Caron. "Because we say to ourselves: 'There, be careful, if I go a little too far, I would not like to offend with this person because it could be detrimental for the rest of my career ...' I did not ask myself never that question. "
"I had this feeling that I had hurt her"
At the microphone of Europe 1, the former columnist however expressed regret, that of the turn taken by his interview with writer Amanda Sthers, still in 2013. "It was very fair what I said, c 'that is to say that I had not really liked his book ( Les Érections Américaines , published by Flammarion, editor's note ) ", he begins. "I wasn't playing, I wasn't lying."
"On the other hand, I found after the fact, on returning home, that the way I had expressed it was too violent", analyzes Aymeric Caron. "It was around the start of the second season and I was like, 'There's a little bit of a problem because actually, even though objectively you're trying to be honest and say that the book isn't 'was not really excited, you can say it a little differently.' Because there I had this feeling that I had hurt her, and I never meant to hurt people. "
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"In addition, I made a real distinction between artists and politicians", adds the journalist. "The politicians, I consider that they have a very solid leather, that they sometimes seek it and that they really lack honesty for some of them. So, you should not hesitate, as a journalist , to go all out. An artist is completely different. " However, Aymeric Caron never called Amanda Sthers to apologize. "But if she hears it, I tell her that I probably think I was too harsh in my approach to her book that day."