Barack Obama was working on a documentary project with a French host who had interviewed him in 2020 and with whom he would have become close.
Barack Obama is reportedly working on a documentary project with the host of The Great Library François Busnel, whom he had met during an interview in 2020, announces Entertainment TV. A project in line with his new career, since the former American head of state has become a narrator of animal documentaries. He notably narrates the series National parks: these wonders of the worldproduced in particular by his wife Michelle Obama and broadcast on Netflix.
” He wanted other things, I think, entrusts the host to our colleagues. We talked about literature, culture, we like the same authors. It created a strong complicity that allows us today to consider this project. Far from inhibiting me, this encounter made me want to 1,000 other projects ! “.
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The meeting of Barack Obama and François Busnel
Barack Obama’s appearance on the show The Great Library in 2020 had captivated 6 million viewers. At the time, the former President of the United States was in France on the occasion of the release of his book A Promised Land and is looking for the ideal set to promote it.
Eager to innovate and get out of the traditional framework of political interviews to which he is accustomed, Barack Obama had opted for the France 5 program hosted for 14 years by François Busnel. ” Before doing this interview, he inquired with various contacts because he wanted to something different. He heard about me from Salman Rushdie who I received a lot », explains François Busnel.
The host therefore received Barack Obama exceptionally on France 2 and keeps a beautiful memory of this meeting. “It is a very, very great memory. And what pride, what happiness to go from half a million viewers each week, with La Grande Librairie, to 6 million on France 2, 10 million if you count the replay. This meeting was wonderful, a great moment of pleasure! »
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