"France has an incredible talent", it is freedom, diversity, sorority

The Lemonade troupe participates in the fifteenth season of La France a un incredible talent.

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• M6 broadcasts Tuesday at 9:05 pm the first episode of season 15 of

  France has an incredible talent

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• At the beginning of October, during the press conference, the host Karine Le Marchand and the jurors Eric Antoine and Marianne James repeatedly raised the issues of parity, visibility of minorities and diversity on the small screen.

• Fight against racism, homophobia, transphobia, grossophobia or even validism… are among the themes mentioned throughout the issues.

When a concept program well identified by the public launches its fifteenth season, one wonders by which end of the telescope we will be able to approach it to avoid repetition.

This is what happens with

, back this Tuesday night on M6.

Of course, the design of the program with the constraints linked to the health crisis raises certain questions.

How was the casting done in full confinement?

How did the production handle the postponement of the shoot after juror Eric Antoine tested positive for Covid-19?

During part of the virtual press conference, organized on Zoom in early October, we say to ourselves that this is all that our article would be about ...

When all of a sudden, Karine Le Marchand, who is speaking about her arrival at the show's animation, lets out the word "sorority".

We did not necessarily expect this neologism, a feminine alternative to "fraternity" - to put it simply - created in the 1970s by the Women's Liberation Movement (MLF), to be pronounced in the middle of the argument. promo.

Precisely, the presenter said: “I found two women who were in the sorority, in the exchange, in the kindness, happy to be there.

“A way of indicating that she got along very well with Marianne James and Hélène Ségara, members of the jury for several seasons.

“At a dinner, everyone opened their arms to me.

It was not easy to create an alchemy with so many strong personalities, ”continued Karine Le Marchand.

The air of nothing, in two sentences, she tears up the cliché of the crimping of buns between women that the pros of gossip would have been happy to invent.

"We are very mates"

Marianne James goes on, even more explicit: "Before the shooting, people glossed over, as was the case with Hélène:" Are you going to get along with Karine Le Marchand? You don't have the same character. "

Result of the races, we are very friends.

This last term - the feminization of the word "pote" - likely to give sweat to the detractors of inclusive writing, clashes again compared to the usual speeches in French entertainment.

And Marianne James to drive the point home: “We had a #MeToo effect.

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The use of this term in this context will no doubt leave more than one feminist activist wary - especially since Gilbert Rozon, the show's former juror, is currently on trial, accused of rape.

Nevertheless, the use of a feminist and progressive vocabulary, in such an enthusiastic manner, in a press conference for a mainstream program in France, is extremely rare, not to say never-seen. .

“Between them, [the jurors] Eric Antoine and Sugar Sammy wear family jewels that they were able to widely display because in front of them and next to them, they had this trio of women of one. certain age, all different, all well in their skin.

[Hélène, Karine and I] have words, describes Marianne James.

On the famous August 25, when Eric tested positive for Covid-19 [and the shooting was postponed], the reaction of the three girls was to be headstrong.

She replays the scene: "We said:" Don't let [the candidate artists] go! Turn their performances, we will see them in Zoom or on a screen! "

This is to tell you how Karine was already thoroughly in the show.

And how much they are not there to play the foil.

"We had a lot of groups come to talk about homophobia"

A few moments later, Eric Antoine, who has not heard the words of Marianne James, nevertheless echoes it.

“When I arrived in

, six years ago, there were three white men and one white woman on the jury.

And there was a white presenter.

Today there are three women and two people of color.

For once, the show has really evolved, "said the magician and humorist, qualifying:" We lost our gay, it's true ... "Of course, he draws this observation in a playful tone but the protagonists have, in the space of an hour, repeatedly verbalized the issues of parity, the visibility of minorities and diversity on the small screen.

When the Lemonade troupe dances for the #BlackLivesMatter movement, the emotion is intense 💗

📺 Tuesday October 20 at 21.05, #LFAUIT presented by Karine Le Marchand with @MJamesOff, @sugarsammy, @eric_antoine and @helenesegaraoff pic.twitter.com/t37inqg1HW

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What is felt behind the scenes is reflected in the comments and opinions of the jury.

It turns out that this year is rich in numbers "with message", as the announcement Deborah Huet, director of programs at Fremantle.

In the first episode of

Tuesday, the public will discover a choreography inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, another joyfully celebrating the diversity of silhouettes or the performance of a breakdance dancer with a disability.

"You have come to put a slap in the face of prejudices," Hélène Ségara reacted to the latter.

"We had a lot of groups come to talk about homophobia, transphobia", notes Eric Antoine who took "a slap in the face" with a number to the rhythm of

by Eddy de Pretto.

“It is painful for all of us every year to see that we are forced to talk about subjects that should be so integrated,” he adds.

"A program of diversity of thought, artistic, sexual, religious"

The illusionist was also marked by the performance of a young gypsy, gay, who, excluded by his family, received help from the association Le Refuge in Marseille.

The humorist's tone is completely serious: “Their premises have been broken, destroyed, there has been violence.

It is incomprehensible that we are still there, with the stupidity of not understanding that difference is essential to evolution and that it is our wealth.

If I have one joy with

, it's that it's a show of diversity of thought, artistic, sexual, religious - we had a family from Versailles with their five children.

What am I happy to see this show that conveys this joy of being together.

It might sound cliché, but how many other places can you find it?

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The first episode, which

was able to watch, effectively deploys a wide range of talents, backgrounds and experiences.

At the start of the last third, a group of children arrives on stage: “Our common point is that we were all born in France, we are of Chechen origin, our parents are refugees.

News is telescope in the perception of entertainment.

Faced with these kids on M6, who indeed have incredible talent, Eric Antoine's words on “the joy of being together” no longer sound like a cliché.

In the split-off France of 2020, the program definitely seems one of the most progressive on the small screen.

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