• On TikTok, hundreds of content creators are trying to get noticed to break into comedy.

  • For a week, ten of them followed a training orchestrated by Edouard Montoute (saga

    Taxi

    ).

  • 20 Minutes

     followed one of the courses given by the actor.

In the third arrondissement of Paris, works are heard through a narrow street.

An incessant grinder noise that does not however prevent a dozen young tiktokeurs from working inside a seminar room.

When we enter the room, we are also asked for absolute silence.

A few meters away, the two TikTok content creators Abou (blagues2renoi) and Caroline Ambrosini (caroambrosini) replay a scene from the film

Youth

by Paolo Sorrentino.

In front of them, eight other influencers, in an arc, observe their comrades reciting their text.

“Her name is Paloma Faith, she does the most obscene job in the world,” murmurs Abou.

A few seconds later, his playmate must get angry.

In the assembly, one person is much more critical than the others.

This is Edouard Montoute, actor known for his roles in

Taxi

or

Asterix and Obelix

.

“You have to be really careful when you get angry, he explains in his debrief.

You have to be careful not to go too high.

When you play the angry person, you have to gain authority.

Rather, it is necessary to lengthen things.

An observation that makes Caroline wince.

"But I don't feel like I'm natural when I talk like that," replies the tiktoker when the actor asks her to stretch the syllables.

“What is this generation that flees French?

»

If these young TikTok talents are pushed to their limits, it's because they asked for it from their agency.

They follow an intensive one-week training, led by Edouard Montoute, to improve their level of comedy.

Everyone dreams of acting in the cinema, on television or on stage.

“On TikTok, there is work on the image, it is they who stage themselves, who work on the editing, observes Edouard Montoute.

I try to make them aware of respecting the text because they are not the ones who write it.

»

The two tiktokeurs will rehearse for over an hour.

Édouard Montoute takes a few steps in the room, takes the time to reflect before giving them his advice.

When the time is long, some reread the text they will have to deliver a few minutes later, not without a few yawns here and there.

Others do not hesitate to take their phone.

When left out, notifications show up on lock screens, mostly coming from Instagram and TikTok obviously.

"ARTICULATE!"

What is this generation that flees French?

exclaims Édouard Montoute, which has the gift of waking everyone up.

“We are facing a generation that speaks very very very quickly, much too quickly.

It's really common for all of them not to have very good diction,” he remarks.

After several rehearsals, the two young actors finally go to the end of their stage.

The applause is heard.

Learn to play silences

After a well-deserved little break outside, Caroline returns to the room.

“At first you feel super embarrassed because everyone is looking at you and waiting for you to talk.

Then, as you go along, when you stutter, you take the time to stop and start again,” she says.

Appropriating a text written by another is the biggest difference with the way she plays comedy on TikTok.

"At home, if it's not going well, I change, it's much easier," says the one who wants to export to the big screen.

Logan, known as Logfive on social media, has already applied some tips since the start of the training.

“On TikTok, we flee silences, everything is millimeter to the second, he underlines.

On stage and in the cinema, it's not like that at all: when there is silence, we play it.

Our game improves on that.

In order to progress, the group of influencers will meet quarterly to follow up.

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