The actor Yann Le Gac, who plays Father Fouras in Fort Boyard, is Thursday the guest of Philippe Vandel's program "Culture Médias", two days before the resumption of the legendary France 2 program. He explains the role unrecognized that he plays in the entertainment show, but also in ... Koh Lanta.
INTERVIEW
It is often not known who is behind Father Fouras's mask.
And even more what French television owes him, in Fort Boyard, but also in other famous entertainment programs.
Yann Le Gac, the actor who plays the wise old man of Fort Boyard, is the guest of the
Culture Médias program
on Thursday
, two days before the resumption of the legendary France 2 program. He returns to his little-known role as creator of Koh-Lanta events, which he has held since 2003.
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"I made a lot of games in Fort Boyard", explains Yann Le Gac, "And for Koh-Lanta, I am a producer of games. That is to say, I invent the games and I put them in square".
The viewers of the TF1 adventure program owe him two cult events: those of the posts and that of the orientation.
"The problem is to find games that are fair"
"The orientation, I claim it. Because I am quite proud of this test", explains the one who created it from A to Z. If he did not give birth to the test of the posts, he does. has adapted to take the form we know today. "The poles, I readapted them when I saw pelicans in Panama who were perched," he says. "I was like 'Hey, what's more pure than that?'. Because the problem is always to find games that are fair, whether big or small, strong or not. Especially when you get to the final. "