Four legs on the red carpet: Messi, star dogAnatomy of a fall.The Palme d’Or 2023 returns to the Cannes Festival equipped with a microphone and camera to capture the words of the stars. And this time it’s not cinema.
“He is the star, Messi is going to interview the stars in Cannes, I lend him my voice, you will give it back to me, right, Messi?” French comedian Raphaël Mezrahi explains to AFP, sitting on a sofa next to him. . the famous eight-year-old Border Collie.
“I will be on all fours behind Messi, it is my voice through Messi who will ask the questions, well it is a little complicated, but later it will be very clear,” he continues.
Basically, Messi will carry a light device, a microphone and a camera, facing the stars on “the red carpet” or “when leaving the bathroom,” details Raphaël Mezrahi.
The one minute tablet –Messi, the Cannes festival seen from the height of a dog– will be available in eight episodes on French channels France 2, France 3, Culturebox and TV5 Monde starting May 16. TikTok will broadcast the best of. An anti-pet abandonment message on the way to the holidays will highlight each sticker.
“People have told me: ‘Messi would be better off resting in his garden’, but he knows his garden by heart, he adores people, the world, he lends himself to the game,” Laura Martín, coach and lover, told AFP. . of the canine phenomenon. Two weeks before the opening of Cannes, AFP attended the microphone and 360° camera tests on Messi’s back, delighted to be the center of attention of eight people in his living room and then in the campaign environment .
“Messi is a mutt”
“Messi is a mutt (actor who goes overboard, editor’s note), clearly yes,” laughs Laura Martín, 37 years old. It was one of her children who gave him that name, a nod to the soccer star.
Dog trainer for individuals, who ended up in the cinema to train pets and ensure their well-being on set, Laura Martín never thought that “everything would go this far” with Messi. The dog accompanied him everywhere but they never took him: “Too beautiful, he takes up too much space,” they told me.
Los Angeles is also very far away. Anatomy of a fall. It won the Oscar for best screenplay. And the Border Collie blew up social media during a nominees luncheon with viral selfies taken by actors Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper and singer Billie Eilish.
Since then, Messi “received”, as Laura Martín says, “an American stage.” She doesn’t say more. And it escapes her lips that yes, the phone rings more often. Her house looks like the one in “Mrs. Everybody.” Except in the kitchen: we see the invitation to the Oscars.
There is another star in the apartment. This is Renard, a four-year-old Prague Rat, who starred alongside Jean Dujardin in the French comedy. presidents.
Fake vomit and sausage pieces
This pocket size is “a dog that you carry in your arms, a little cold,” describes his trainer. The action is for Messi. Who impresses in a scene of drunkenness and convulsion in Anatomy of a fall.film about the autopsy of a couple of artists who live isolated in the mountains.
During the two months of preparation, Messi notably learned to position his neck strangely for this scene and to be “carried with a very limp body”, to reproduce a loss of consciousness after vomiting. Fake vomit coming out of a tube placed under his mouth. “The truth is that he didn’t like it,” confesses his coach.
The day the AFP came was fun. In front of pieces of sausage, Messi adopted different poses (sitting, with his paw on his nose, standing, frozen, barking in front of the camera) for video messages to actress Emma Stone (The The Earth) and American television host Jimmy Kimmel. From star to star.
Source: BFM TV
