After 1981, 1987 and 1991, Ricardo Trogi is now making the sequel to his adventures in 1995, a film that promises to be the “funniest” and “craziest” of them all. We were on set this week.
Published at 2:55 am. Updated at 11:00 a.m.
“Dear viewers, it is with great sadness that we have to announce the disqualification of participant Ricardo Trogi! » His crime? A “clear” tribute to the rock group Aerosmith, “simple music that does not belong to the values or philosophy of the course…”
We are seen on a television set of the series “La course” and the one who says these words is none other than Pierre Therrien, played here by Mickaël Gouin.
We suspect that it is obviously a bad dream or at least a hallucination of the main character Ricardo Trogi.
“The film is about my time on this show [La course destination monde, édition 1994-1995] “comments the director with his symbolic hat on the sidelines of filming in the former offices of the National Film Board (NFB) on Highway 40. At that time: “I was a little scared, he laughs, because of a very strong drug against malaria! “.
After recounting his childhood (1981), his youth (1987) and his adventures during his first backpacking trip to Europe (1991), Ricardo Trogi continues his biographical fresco with his, to say the least, difficult beginnings in the wonderful world of the world Realization.
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The TV from the show La Course
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Mickaël Gouin in the role of presenter Pierre Therrien
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Ricardo Trogi directs Mickaël Gouin.
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Francis-William Rhéaume (in the role of Jean-Michel Vidal), Maude Bouchard (Louise Racicot), Ricardo Trogi, Mickaël Gouin (Pierre Therrien) and David Leblanc (Michel Coulombe)
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Note that although the Radio-Canada show that launched the director’s career has been slightly renamed for legal reasons, we have retained the real names of all other characters well known to viewers (Pierre Therrien, but also the judges Michel Coulombe, Louise Racicot and Manon Barbeau). ).
Nice detail: former cameramen from the show were recruited as extras. We’ll no doubt spot them here and there throughout the film operating their impressive period cameras.
“I was driven to the end of the world,” says the director, who will shoot next week in Morocco (instead of Egypt, which was already too complicated in 1995) before traveling to Nepal, his final destination.
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The cameramen and their vintage cameras!
And it is, without reservation, very funny. It’s pretty solid. In any case, it’s the right thing for me [des quatre] what I find the funniest.
Ricardo Trogi, director
For what ? Because technology, or rather the lack of technology, makes life difficult for him. “We are a year before the Internet! “, he argues. Before the generalization of the cell phone (here everyone is “addicted” to their phone), without GPS, even less Facebook. “If you don’t call, you won’t hear from me!” » says the man who still remembers having to call his mother from abroad to hear her reports in one ear (his mother moved the phone – with cable, of course – closer to a television!) That gives you an idea of the portrait.
“It was complicated! »
And last but not least, the brief was: Imagine arriving in a foreign country overnight, without speaking the local language, with a “survival budget” of $500 per week. Imagine if you also had to find original subjects on site!
“It’s the little details that make it fun. Viewers are truly told what it was like for a “runner” to make a four-minute film. » Basically we will have understood: “It was complicated!” »
I’m not afraid of ridicule. I don’t take the parts in which I am most glorious. But I’ll take the places where I look the craziest.
Ricardo Trogi, director
And by 1995, “I had the funniest things to talk about.”
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Jean Carl Boucher
A statement that Jean-Carl Boucher does not deny, who will play Ricardo Trogi again and to his greatest delight, for the fourth time.
“I think so,” he agrees. Definitely. It’s very crazy, right from the start! »
It has to be said that his character is still just as goofy in his mid-twenties. “Yes, he gets into trouble a lot. He’s well-intentioned, but clumsy! »
The actor takes the opportunity to once again emphasize “how happy he is to be working with Ricardo Trogi”. “I’m glad I knew someone as well as him at such a young age! […] It really clicked. […] And we have a bit of the same sense of humor! »
Among other errors and technical glitches, his character will also lose his camera in Egypt, he admits. “And it’s fun for the public to see someone get into so much trouble. He has a clear mission, but is unable to fulfill it. There’s a lot of humor in it: every scene has its own problem! »
If you’re wondering what the film’s musical selection will be, know that the director has drawn up a list of “110 songs” but his selection hasn’t been finalized yet. “It will be a surprise and it will be more fun that way! », he concludes. The sequel will follow in cinemas next summer.