Fully available on the platform Disney +, The documentary series Soprano, à la vie, à la mort invites viewers to discover the journey of this popular artist whose real name is Saïd M’Roumbaba, who has taken his place in the hearts of the French over the years. . And who better to say that than his childhood friends and lifelong friends Mateo, Jamal and Meji?
The three directors of the series, Celine Jalette, Anthony Igulein and John Zerbit, entrusted our microphone to this experience.
AlloCiné: Why did you find soprano history important to the public? Why is he?
Celine Jale: The soprano is an artist who is insanely popular. There he fills stadiums, even a few stadiums. Then, a humanly similar artist is a bit, that’s what made me want to work with him. With shoulders with many personalities, he is quite unique.
He is a very normal, very simple person. Everything behind his story, through digging, investigating, tells more than just the artist. We didn’t want to do Fan Doctor, we didn’t want to tell the story of the soprano, we wanted to tell the story of Said and his childhood friends.
John Zerbit: A parallel is visible between his personal history, friendship history and career. This desire to tell the story of French social history, rap, was even more exciting. I am also convinced that an interest in popular artists always says a lot about our community. A popular artist, he is not popular for anything.
Anthony Igullen: For us it was almost a game of deconstruction of this image that he should try to understand who he was and why, go further and put the singer aside to know who the person is, who the young man is, who is progressing, how he was progressing in his life, in his meetings. Music, rap, it was a wonderful wallpaper.
Soprano, we know him as this bright, very cheerful person, but you managed to make this documentary very exciting too. How did Saeed and his friends Mej, Mateo, and Jamal get to talk about topics that are sometimes very difficult to discuss?
Celine Jale: Interviewing a soprano was the hardest part because he has been in front of the cameras for 25 years and answering interviews so he knows what to say and what not to say. Even though we knew and trusted each other, he paid attention to everything. The other three are the virgins of it all, so I talked to her a lot and it was wonderful.
Moreover, in this series we really interviewed ordinary people, we have the first landlord who rents them their space, the mistress of his school … We did not want to create a panel from all the stars who wear sopranos. No, we wanted real people, real Marcelians, real faces … After all, we are happy with that when we watch the TV series today: it portrays Marcel through portraits and people he trusts.
What would you say to anyone who is not a soprano fan who wants to discover this series?
Celine Jale: This series is watched by fans, but is designed for those who do not know. We’re not telling a soprano story, we’re telling a Said story, about four friends and that’s all anyone can talk about. As we showed around, people told me “Ah, Mej, I love him!”. All ridden on a character, anyone can find themselves in a character or find any friend, it is universal and not exactly dedicated to fans.
John Zerbit: This is a feature of Disney. Obviously, there will be many more French people who will see the series, but it will still spread all over the world, so it should have been universal.
This TV series is first and foremost a friendship story. And you three, why did you want to work together?
Celine Jale: We all knew each other closely or from afar. Also our producer Nicolas Valode wants to create real extra teams and we all have very different profiles. For the six-episode series, it was as if we had made six documentaries, so there were not too many of us three, and each of us had a little bit of experience.
Anthony Igullen: We all found ourselves on the story we wanted to tell, we all went in the same direction on what is wonderful: the history of friendship, the history of 30 years of evolution, this history of France, this sociological history, this history of music. … We all wanted to make the same movie!
Discover now the documentary series Soprano, Life, Death on Disney +.
Source: allocine
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