Alexis Patri 3:00 p.m., September 18, 2021

At the microphone of Isabelle Morizet in the show "There is not only one life in life" on Saturday, the actor and comedian Artus looks back on his personal and professional career.

And in particular his unexpected arrival in the very cutting-edge Canal + series "Le Bureau des Légendes", while he was leaving "We only ask to laugh about it".

INTERVIEW

No one expected him in that role.

Not even himself.

In 2017, season 3 of the spy series 

Le Bureau des Légendes

welcomes a new character: agent Jonas Maury.

And it is Artus, hitherto known as a regular comedian in Laurent Ruquier's show 

We only ask to laugh

, who embodies him.

And his acting will bluff.

The artist explains Saturday at the microphone of Isabelle Morizet, on the occasion of her invitation to the program 

There is not only one life in life

, how he found himself in the Canal + series.

>> Find Isabelle Morizet's shows every weekend from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. on Europe 1 as well as in podcast and replay here

"The casting really took place like a normal casting", is still surprised today by Artus.

"I went there with this spirit in mind, which is to tell myself that it's not going to do it, that it doesn't make sense. I said to my agent 'If you want, I'll go.' But I was doing Laurent Ruquier, I was a comedian on France 2 and we were talking about one of the most cutting-edge series in France! "

"In France, we still stick a lot of labels"

Artus craves the role, but he fears his TV image will pursue him.

"Except that the advantage is that Eric Rochant and Antoine Chevrollier, at the origin of the series, do not watch TV", he explains.

"They just saw a guy, whatever his label. And that's cool. Because in France, we still tend to label people a lot. It's not because we did

Dance with it. the stars

that we suck at everything. We can vary. It is not because we are a comedian that we necessarily make crates of them. In comedy, there are different styles of comedy and different types of play . "

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As for the game, Artus did not need any support. But he needed it on a very specific component of his character. "I did coaching for languages, because I had to speak in Syrian, Iraqi, Kurdish, Tunisian, English and French," he lists. "The Iraqi is very guttural. The Syrian is much softer, it is closer to the Lebanese. With the characters of the

Bureau of Legends

, you really have to master the languages."