Alexis Patri 12:01, September 15, 2021
Canal + brings back, from Thursday at 8:30 pm, the cult program "En Aparté".
At her presentation, journalist Nathalie Lévy replaces Pascale Clark.
Invited Wednesday of "Culture Media", the new voice of the program explains to Philippe Vandel's microphone how she found herself in her place which enchants her.
"I dreamed of it".
Journalist Nathalie Lévy takes over the reins of Pascale Clark's cult program
En Aparté
, present on Canal + from 2001 to 2007. A program where the voice of the presenter guides a guest in an apartment arranged to make him tell anecdotes and great moments of his life, every day at 8:30 p.m.
Guest of
Culture Médias on
Wednesday, she explains at the microphone of Philippe Vandel how she found herself in this place of which she was dying, while the resurrection of the show was still only a project.
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"I just finished a blank year. In any case, I was not in a media last season. But because I wanted to, I needed to breathe and I was on other projects", specifies Nathalie Lévy.
"And I read in
Télérama
in March that the program En Aparté may be put back on the air at the start of the school year. And there I jump. I tell myself that it is not possible, that I cannot miss this opportunity. "
Insistence on a fake phone number
The journalist then calls friends who work at Canal + and send her the number of Franck Apietto, director of the TV group's flows.
"I come up against a deep silence," laughs the journalist today.
And for good reason: Franck Apietto changed his number, after it was revealed on the air.
The journalist therefore insists with a stranger.
She ends up getting the right number.
"And there, Franck Apietto answers me. We exchange. We also talk about quite personal things. It's quite disturbing because we go quite quickly in an exchange that is not expected", reveals Nathalie Lévy at the microphone from Europe 1.
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"Things were done like that, quite gradually. I met a certain number of people at Canal +, all the directors, the producers of the show. I went through all the stages, one by one, without having the less contact beforehand with the people of Canal, ”she continues.
A formula close to the initial version
The Canal + teams finally chose Nathalie Lévy for the return of
En Aparté
following a dinner.
According to Philippe Vandel, they would have been subjugated by her deep voice, the flow of which slows down unconsciously when she evokes an important thing.
Information that the journalist herself did not have.
The voice of the presenter was already the salt of the initial version of the show.
Nathalie Lévy also specifies that the 2021 version of
En Aparté
will remain very close to that of Pascale Clark.
“There was no need to remove or add things,” she explains.
"We really made changes on the margins, like updating the decor a bit."
A "hyper private" exchange with Pascale Clark?
But did the new presenter call Pascale Clark, as is customary when a presenter is replaced by another?
"It's really a journalist's question!", Retorts Nathalie Lévy, who refuses to say whether she warned or asked for advice from her predecessor, who had publicly expressed her disappointment at not having been contacted by the directors of Canal +.
"I will not answer this question, because knowing whether I called him or not is purely private," adds Nathalie Lévy.
"And the content of the exchange is super private too."
The new version of
En Aparté
returns to the air on Thursday at 8:30 p.m.
It will then be broadcast daily, in the form of 26-minute interviews from Monday to Thursday, and a best-of of the week on Friday.