Arte offers the continuation and end of the mini-series “The World of Tomorrow” this Thursday, October 27. Kool Shen and JoeyStarr, of which this fiction is the biopic, did they intervene in the realization of this ambitious project telling their youth before NTM?
Thursday October 27, 2022, Arte continues and ends the broadcast of its mini-series The World of Tomorrow from 8:55 p.m. In this excellent fiction, we discover the tumultuous adolescence of Didier Morville and Bruno Lopes, before they became Kool Shen and JoeyStarr, the founders of the French rap group NTM.
Here, we follow the journey of this mythical duo at the time when hip-hop culture emerged in France, in the 1980s. Anthony Bajon and Melvin Boomer (who answered our questions) perfectly and intensely embody the artists . Moreover, were the real protagonists of this fascinating story involved in the development of this project?
Anthony Bajon confirmed to AlloCiné that Kool Shen and JoeyStarr were extremely present in the process of creating Tomorrow’s World: “We worked a lot with them. They were very thorough and demanding, which is normal.al.”
Kool Shen and JoeyStarr are very invested in “The World of Tomorrow”
Melvin Boomer added: “On my side, JoeyStarr has been there a lot. He’s an actor and so he was able to teach me some acting tricks on set. Also, 90, even 100% of all his little punchlines are really his and he explained the meaning to me. He detailed scenes like the one where Didier delivers clothes to a modeling agency.
We did it once and he said ‘In fact, I landed in this place and there were these gildings, these magnificent Parisian structures… I arrived, my mouth was wide open, like that! I said to myself, this is the world of the ‘rich’. This kind of remarks helped me enormously to interpret it.”
Anthony Bajon told us: “As far as I’m concerned, it was a little different with Bruno. I had a certain closeness with him because I played his character, obviously. We called each other a lot. In video, we laughed talking about football… We two had more reports outside of filming.
We came to his house with Melvin and Victor Bonnell who plays DJ S. We played football in his living room, we ate with him… He was not on the set but very present around it. He is also close to Katell Quillévéré [l’une des réalisatrices, ndlr] so they called each other all the time.” An involvement that will undoubtedly have contributed to the success and success of the World of Tomorrow.