"Lego Masters": Big stress for Belgian dads in episode 2 -

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  • During the filming of

    Lego Masters

     last July,

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    was invited to go behind the scenes of the show.

  • In his dressing room, Eric Antoine answered our questions while keeping an eye on his control screens thanks to which he follows the progress of the candidates, minute by minute.

  • “When it doesn't work the way they wanted, it hurts me,” he says.

Two million bricks on a television set is not the result of a brilliant magic trick.

Eric Antoine could however have taken a prodigious formula out of his magician's hat, but it is the animator costume that he chose to endorse in 

Lego Masters

.

While his digital show has exceeded 30,000 spectators and has been extended until January 30, the performer is also a hit in the new competition of M6. 

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 met him while filming the show.

How did you end up at the helm of

Lego Masters

 ?

I really wanted to host the program.

My brother is an editor and passionate about brick games like me since our childhood.

It's a really important thing for me because I find that it is not a game where you win, there is no winner and no loser.

This is one of the values ​​that I really want to pass on to my children.

When I heard from my brother that EndemolShine was looking for editors for the show, I called all of M6 saying that if they weren't doing this show with me, I knew their addresses, their families and that I would like them. would find (laughs).

But the production had already thought about it and I didn't know it.

Why such a desire to animate it?

What made me want to animate it is several entries.

The first is the game which is something that brings us together, it is something excessively family.

In addition, it is not just any game, it is a game of creativity thanks to which we see who we are.

There's also a spectacular front door, the truly mind-blowing part of the show.

It's amazing what the candidates are building.

And then there is the whole narrative of the competition.

Who will win ?

We get attached to the characters.

Between the duo of creative and endearing artists, the husband and his wife, the father and his son, there are all these stories.

There are a lot of moments where you get attached, emotionally and in terms of the spectacular.

All these brick aficionados are people making a dream come true, it's beautiful to see a passion express itself.

One of the things that I like the most in life is meeting people who are passionate or even obsessed with their chosen field, and who have made their dreams come true.

There they live it.

You are not a judge on this show.

Is there another hat you like?

What interests me is to learn.

It's to understand why I prefer this construction and Georg and Paulina [the brickmasters] another.

They have a sharp professional point of view.

I also have an artist's point of view as I have on

Incroyable Talent

, I am touched or not by a work without necessarily knowing its technical nature.

My role is to give the framework of the game, that is to say the pure job of animator, and then it is a job of humor above all because what I like is the meeting with the people, what is happening, what they are going through.

The idea is to bring an emotional bond.

When you were told there were two million pieces, did you have immediate pressure or did you go “cool”?

“Cool” is the impression I can give, but it's never my inner feeling.

I am stressed out about life.

All the shows I'm on are still big barnums.

I don't have this apprehension but rather that of understanding what is the real tone of a program, of getting the best out of it and of being the best possible cog.

There is also an identity that is mine, they know that if they hire me, I'm going to screw up at times, I'm going to mess around, I'm not necessarily going to respect everything they tell me.

They cast me and I come to be me.

I come to bring, I hope, humor, freshness, sensitivity, listening.

I try to bring what I hope to be strong on.

And then upstream, there is always preparation work.

The show exists in the United States, Australia, I watched it.

I also gave my opinion on certain writings, I wrote with my co-author, Karina [Siamer], we worked on sets, etc.

This work helps to manage stress.

As in 

France has an incredible talent

, there is also a lot of emotion in

Lego Masters…

Yes, absolutely.

What is very strong is the ephemeral of a work of bricks.

They build for two to fifteen hours, which equates to thirty hours of work, and it's not just work, it's years of practice.

In the works of the candidates, there is an emotional charge that touches me.

I can feel the baggage, the spirit behind it and when it doesn't work out the way they wanted, it hurts me.

When it works better than they thought, it makes me happy.

When the competition stops for them even though they have given everything, I have tears in my eyes.

It's part of the process that mixes the notion of competition and the life of an artist which may seem contradictory but which works very well.

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