Comedians, politicians, anonymous … The designer Jul mobilized personalities from very different backgrounds to double the characters in his animation series, taken from the comics of which he is the author.
By Guillemette Faure
There is a rabbine (Delphine Horvilleur), a navigator (Isabelle Autissier), a TV star (Laurent Delahousse), a successful author (Leïla Slimani), actors in sight (Félix Moati …). It could be the cocktail of the time, it is the credits of the votes of the animated series 50 shades of Greeks, these mythological wacky which, for the third season, broadcast from December 12 on Arte, stage Dionysos Anonymous alcoholics, Homer BNB rentals, the confined gods discussing on zoom after an epidemic of taramavirus or trying to stand up.
The names of these liners parade at a speed that makes them impossible to read, like star guests arrived at an evening by the back door and that one would not be completely sure to have seen. Jul, the author of the series and comics which she is adapted, swears that it is not intentional. At four minutes the episode, the designer is forced to go fast. The votes of the dubbing is not listed in order of arrival on the screen or in alphabetical order.
A bit like a table plan, Julien Berjeaut, of his real name, does not place all the bishops side by side. With celebrities, the less known names of the public: the pediatrician of his kids, the cashier of the supermarket next door, the waitress of the restaurant where he is going to have lunch, the director of the college of the Alsatian School where he was educated … And lots of people who came to be of service, his lawyer, his banker, the passionate train journalist who helped him on the set of his next documentary dedicated to Lucky Luke – of which he is the new screenwriter – and all the interns of 3 e
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History, as Jul tells, would like that at the beginning -that is to say with the previous animated series, Silex and the City, broadcast on Arte from 2012 to 2017 -, he started to Call on friends for voices to save money. And then he added the people he met, the scientists he found interesting, the actors he liked. He convinced Sidse Babett Knudsen, from the Borgen series, to be the goddess Freyja and asked so many actors from the legends office that he almost reproduced the series in animation.
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