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A few days before the launch of everything for the light, the editorial staff of Allociné went to meet Gwendal Marimoutou on the set of the series. Confidences!
D-2 before the launch of everything for light on our small screens! If you loved Glee and one, back, very, you risk falling in love with this new event event launched in preview on Netflix from June 13. Thereafter, you can discover one episode a day from 6 p.m. on TF1 and in replay on TF1+!
On the occasion of the arrival of this unprecedented daily newspaper, the editorial staff of Allociné had the chance to go to the set and go to meet Gwendal Marimoutou. Propelled to the front of the stage during his passage in The Voice Kids, the young man lends his features to Jacob in everything for light. Confidences!
Allociné: How do you feel in this project which is, somewhere, the role you expected?
Gwendal Marimoutou (Jacob) : It was really my dream of making either a musical film or a musical series. I saw that it was not topical in France, so much so that with my best friend, Lola Dubini, who is also an actress and singer, we were to say that we had to write it ourselves.
Afterwards, I heard that Netflix and TF1 were preparing this project and I let my karma do it. I did not play elbows, it was done naturally. It was obvious and I am super grateful because it is a very nice gift. What we live is quite magical from the start.
There seems to have real cohesion between all the actors …
We have never seen that. I had the chance to make two filming with always good atmospheres. For the moment, I have not come across complicated filming, but at the end of the day, the actors return home. It's everyone at home. While there, it's different. I think it also comes from the fact that there are a lot of singers.
With Joy Esther, who also comes from the musical, we are used to working in a troop and she interprets the main role of the series. If she herself brings together a group's state of mind, it necessarily transpires over the whole team. We really like human adventures.
Logically, we turn from Monday to Friday and after, we are supposed to go home. And there, it's been a month and no one is coming back. We are all the time together, we went to the creeks during these days off, for example. It's pretty beautiful what's going on and we realize it. We find it precious, we take care of it.
It is a daily newspaper so the pace is necessarily more intense. How do you live it?
It's crazy, frankly. I can thank my experience as a musical a little, especially because it taught me the rigor. I used to do eight shows per week, for example. It's a bit the same with everything for light. It also imposes a certain rigor to us, because in addition to all the sequences that we must turn, we must also sing and dance.
It is true that we thought we were going to sing in a play-back because that's what is usually done but not at all. There, we take live taken. You can sing at 8:30 am, you can do dance sequences at 9:00 am. You must have a good lifestyle because the body must follow, the voice too.
What can you tell us about the character of Jacob?
Jacob is the illuminated in the neighborhood. He is a character whose life is governed by energies and astrology. He is really in there and at the same time, he is a little creative genius. He really likes to explore. He plays all the instruments: ukulele, harp, piano, flute. He will sample water hunts, doors.
It is in his world and precisely, being a little too much in his world can impact his social interactions with the coaches of the Light studio and his comrades. It is conducive to a lot of moments of comedy.
It is therefore a character who has enormous comic potential. How do you like it ?
It's really something that I like. I was able to start doing it on stage and in the film, Paradis Paris. It is a genre that really starts to please me because I like to make smile or trigger a laugh with viewers. I think that everything that happens to roommate, brings a little breathing to the series, because like any good daily newspaper, there is its share of kisses, love stories, tears and incidents of life. The light studio will not be spared.
You talked about Lola Dubini earlier, your best friend. Would you like to find her in everything for light?
Anyway, it's forced. There, it is a first season but I hope that if there is ever a sequel, it can go through the light studio in guest, in recurrent, whatever. But we were lucky to be gathered on the screen recently recently. By dint of coming to see her and supporting her in Marseille while she was doing Léo Mattéï, they offered me this role, which was great.
Lola is my sister. We have known each other for 16 years now. We are really the example that there is no point in crashing into this job to succeed. On the contrary ! We were doing the Paris bars pianos. At a time when really, we had no sorrel and we saw this competition and this competition everywhere.
It is beautiful to show that in fact, there is no point in crushing the other and that there is room for everyone! You just have to take it and that it is the right time. And that's what's great with the series, it will be able to please young people too.
Not everyone has dreams of glory, but everyone wants to be accomplished, in the end. I think we still deal with subjects that are super interesting such as society's diktats, image relationship, pressure, the term competition between us.
Have you prepared for this new notoriety that was potentially coming with everything for light?
I try not to make plans on the comet. It is sure that since The Voice, my life has changed. At the time, nine to ten million people watched the program. I was lucky to have had this extraordinary springboard and after, to continue and never stopped.
It's been a while since I adapted my life and that it is no longer impacted. I don't do shopping on Saturday afternoon. I am often on a scooter in Paris, I don't walk much. I became a little more homebody, that's why with Lola, we don't let go. I just hope that at least, the inhabitants of La Ciotat and Marseille will be proud.
Some have already challenged and encouraged us. It's really only love. I hope it will please. There are so many things that have been implemented around this daily newspaper and we hope that it will have a repercussions and that the public will be able to appropriate the series and take part in it.
Honestly, it's beautiful what we are living, it's precious. I hope it will stay like that. We will see what the broadcast will bring to the program, but there, for the moment, there is a troop without ego, we really help each other.
For example, I have to interpret a music genius, but I don't know how to play all the instruments. Obviously, there are coaching, but I can count on Charlie Loiselier, on Marie Fèvre-Scheuemann to help me. Loris Triolo, he who is a rapper, helped Yara Charry to make a little more urban titles. There is a nice mutual aid and it's nice.
