Renowned actor and comedian, Gérard Jugnot is now a writer of tales not really for children.

Guest of "Culture Médias", he explains the absurd ideas that spread his book "C'est Heure des Contes".

INTERVIEW

What would Grimm's and Perrault's tales and La Fontaine's fables look like, if they had been written in 2020?

Actor Gérard Jugnot answers this funny question in his first book 

C'est Heure des Contes

.

A short comic book whose content the actor develops at the microphone of Philippe Vandel, in the program 

Culture Médias.

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Little Red Riding Hood who gauze the wolf

"It's not a 

feel good movie,

a 

feel bad book

: I treat evil with evil", warns Gérard Jugnot.

For the actor, rewriting "the dreadful tales" of our childhood, with their big bad wolves and their child-eating ogres, was "a way to overcome our fear".

"I revisit that in our time, with a rather twisted look and a humor, I hope, a little dark just to laugh rather than cry," he says. 

Thus, the big bad wolf goes vegan, but throws himself on Little Red Riding Hood's little pot of butter, which gauze it with a tear gas canister.

He writes about Petit Poucet that he comes from "a large, very poor family, which was crying out for famine from the 15th of the month. The height of bad luck, the father and mother were also very stupid and it was a night of great drinking, after seeing the

Love is in the meadow

on their flat screen, that they had the enlightenment: the solution was in the forest. "

"It's a 'rule of tales'", laughs Gérard Jugnot at the microphone of Philippe Vandel.

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"It wasn't better before"

But the actor of the Splendid does not stop there.

He also imagines these tales at the time of Covid-19 and health measures.

He writes "Could the hare have justified the displacement for imperative family reasons?", "Little Thumb's parents would have had great difficulty in taking their children into the forest", or "Little Red Riding Hood would have could not visit his grand mother, cloistered in an EHPAD ".

For Gérard Jugnot, diverting these tales is also a way of making fun of the “it was better before” speech.

“I play around with these stories, to say it was awful back then. It's still awful now, but with other things,” he explains.

"We must not forget that in the 20th century, which everyone regrets, there was the war of 14, the colonial wars, the Shoa ....", he enumerates.

"Certainly we have AIDS and Covid-19. It is of course dramatic and surreal, but in every era these catastrophes."

A current time neither better nor worse, but which Gérard Jugnot has decided to laugh about.