A smiling Mathieu Kassovitz, delighted to find himself facing an unmasked audience. “It’s really cool, faces! “he launched to the audience of a cinema in Lille (North), where he was present on the occasion of the Series Mania festival. Interviewed by Pierre Langlais, journalist at Télérama, the 54-year-old man, who returned from Ukraine a few days ago, gave himself up with his usual naturalness.
When asked if he himself would be ready to take on the direction of a series, the one who interpreted Malotru in the five seasons of the “Office of Legends” launched: “That’s what I’m trying to do. to do, I start. Most certainly next year, I will be able to present it to you: the TV series that will n… all the other TV series. »
The mystery remains unsolved about this project, even if Mathieu Kassovitz released a few snippets of information a little later in the discussion: “I really want to talk about it because it’s going to be an atomic bomb, it’s a amazing stuff, but we’re negotiating the rights. I’m very motivated, we need a TV series like that. It’s exactly everything you could expect from a series in all things action, violence, horror, thriller… The political implication behind it, you won’t even need to see it, because that you will be too shocked by what is happening visually! “A crazy promise, before adding an even more intriguing detail:” There is a particular role, which is the main role, which must not be played by any actor, I cannot tell you more. »
“We should have continued the Office of Legends”
About his biggest success on television, “Le Bureau des Légendes” on Canal +, he admits that he has not seen the fifth season: “I have not been told anything good about it and I do not want to be disappointed. “But he regrets the end of the series:” We should have continued, we had at least one more season in the belly. If I had been a producer, I would have said: Here, this actor is starting to be too expensive, we are going to replace him with a new kid. Imagine, there, if we had continued the office of legends with what is happening right now? We could react to the news. »
During the exchange, which lasted almost an hour and a half, first with the journalist then with the spectators, Mathieu Kassovitz also returned to his experience in Ukraine, where he shot two seasons of the spy series . “I lived there for three months, I talked a lot about politics with them, I could have told Putin that he wouldn’t make it. Just talk to the guys for a few hours and you immediately see the people they are, their history, their pride…”
These meetings obviously motivated his recent trip, but in reaction to the thanks of a man in the public, he made a point of emphasizing: “I didn’t go there alone but with JR who takes great photos of events. We just created a megaphone for people like you and me who left on their own. Since we went into the media, 20,000 people have gathered on the Internet to organize themselves by region and see what to send. It is a citizen movement. Those to be thanked are those who are there at the moment, who are sleeping in tents. I only spent a few hours there. It doesn’t cost someone famous anything to do that, you can thank me for spreading the message, but that’s it. »
The entire meeting organized by the Lille festival can be found online until Friday on seriesmaniadigital.com.