Asked Monday in "It feels good" on how he lives this long period of curfew, comedian and actor Fred Testot explains wanting to focus on the positive signs, highlighting a number of innovations from France and which could help us to find a more serene life.

INTERVIEW

"I am privileged because I have the opportunity to work."

The actor and humorist Fred Testot is aware of his luck in the face of the difficulties that the fight against Covid-19 places on the French.

But it is a breath of hope and optimism for all that he wants to offer Monday in

It feels good

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In this desire to bring good humor, Fred Testot puts forward solutions and avenues towards less health restrictions, designed and manufactured in various large cities in France.

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"We didn't sign up for that"

Fred Testot recognizes without false pretense that, as an actor, he is relatively spared in his work by the health crisis.

"The shootings have been authorized, while unfortunately people in theaters are not allowed to work, just like restaurant owners," he observes.

"So we will say that we were lucky in that: we have three months ahead of us, we still have pasta and rice in the cupboards."

But the actor shares the weariness of the French in the face of the curfew and the possibility of a third confinement.

"Even for me, who am very positive and very optimistic, it is no longer of great interest if we all live cloistered at home and we live with masks", he regrets, before joking.

"In any case, that's not what we asked for at the start. We didn't sign up for it."

Promising French inventions

To succeed in keeping morale up, Fred Testot has a trick, however.

"What I do is watch all the good news, such as inventions," he explains.

"I wear a mask whose fabric is anti-virus. It is Marseillais who invented that."

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The actor then cites other promising French inventions.

"I saw that the Lyonnais had invented a fabric which self-cleans in the light and which is also anti-virus and anti-bacteria", he indicates.

"I saw that the people of Nantes are developing a vaccine valid for 10 years against Lyme disease and against Covid-19. There are filtrations like in planes that exist for theaters."

Recalling that in New York restaurants have reopened to full on the terrace and at 35% occupancy indoors, as have cinemas, Fred Testot wants to see the glass half full.

"Yes, you have to be optimistic," he says.