Already twenty years since “meeting in unknown land” punctuated the evenings of the French on public service. And the one on the initiative, Frédéric Lopez, has many memories of filming in his bag.
While Meeting in unknown land has just breathed his twentieth candle, its emblematic creator and producer, Frédéric Lopez, agreed to make some confidences on this program that the French particularly like. In the columns of TV 7 daysthe 58 -year -old host returned to the highlights of his career, very marked by this program.
Frédéric Lopez remembers the first of Meeting in unknown land :: “I was afraid”
If he has since passed the torch of the presentation of the program to Raphaël de Casabianca then at the old Miss France Laury Thilleman this year, he keeps very significant memories. Since the launch of the show, he has always been able to count on a star cast. And the first star to have lent himself to the game in 2004 was Thierry Lhermitte, which Frédéric Lopez took to Masoala National Park in Madagascar.
“I have an infinite gratitude for Thierry. The show was new and he trusted me”he recognizes elsewhere. Before remembering: “What was complicated is that he was very modest. So I didn’t really know what he felt, and then he escaped us all the time. As it was the first time, I was afraid of missing things. I was filled at the idea of missing an image.”
Frédéric Lopez grateful: “I have to live up to this mark of trust”
Grateful, the presenter ofA Sunday in the countryside – Besides parodied by Thierry Lhermitte in Jérôme Commandeur’s magical world On Canal + – knows what he owes to the stars who accompany him to the other side of the world. And he doesn’t hesitate to say it! “The personalities who accompany us agree to leave without their entourage and to get out of their comfort zone (…) I must be up to this mark of confidence”said Victor’s father, 27.
Before taking out, and leaving Laury Thilleman to the helm, and to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the program for which he is still a producer, Frédéric Lopez will soon go on an adventure. On April 29, France 2 will actually broadcast its meeting with the Turkana in Kenya alongside Kendji Girac. An appointment not to be missed.
