Yann Le Gac, the actor who has been hiding behind the mask of Father Fouras since the beginnings of Fort Boyard, is Thursday the guest of "Culture Médias".
While Fort Boyard has exported to more than 70 countries, he explains to Philippe Vandel's microphone that his character, cult in France, changes in the foreign versions of the show.
INTERVIEW
Father Fouras speaks neither German nor Korean.
And yet, Fort Boyard, whose new season starts on Saturday night on France 2, has been exported to these two countries.
The French program created in 1990 even had local versions in more than 70 states, all filmed on the fort of Charente-Maritime.
Yann Le Gac, the actor who has been hiding behind the mask of Father Fouras since the beginning of the program, explains Thursday in
Culture Médias
what these countries have made of his character.
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A father Fouras like a devil in leather
"The funny thing is that each country adapts this character to its culture and interprets it in its own way."
And the result is sometimes colorful.
"The Koreans had made Father Fouras a sort of Napoleon", laughs Yann Le Gac.
"And the Germans had made a devil woman dressed in leather!"
When he started his first season in Fort Boyard, Yann Le Gac could not imagine staying there for 31 years.
It was by responding to a casting that he landed this role, despite the warnings of his comedian friends.
"You must not do TV. Never TV," they had then warned.
"Making television was frowned upon at the time," remembers the man who first became Father Fouras to fill his fridge. “In the end, I did it just to seal it. I had no idea this show was going to last and be as successful as it was.”