JOEL SAGET / AFP via Getty Images The artistic director of the Paris Olympics promises that the opening ceremony will be a great spectacle.
JOEL SAGET / AFP via Getty Images
The artistic director of the Paris Olympics promises that the opening ceremony will be a great spectacle.
PARIS 2024 OLYMPICS – The public is not at the end of its surprises. Four months before the opening ceremony of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris, artistic director Thomas Jolly teases the big show he is putting together. After the controversy over the presence of singer Aya Nakamura during the opening ceremony on July 26, the 42-year-old actor and director warns the public that this is only the tip of the iceberg.
During an interview with Telerama published this Tuesday April 2, Thomas Jolly assure “that the entire ceremony promises surprises much stronger, more radical than the presence or absence of Aya Nakamura”. He is currently working on preparing a show that he wants to be inclusive. “ It is up to me that, on July 26, each of us feels recognized: everyone has their own tastes and yet we form a great whole”.
The objective is to honor French culture of yesterday and today while allowing as many people as possible to identify. “I hope with wit, fantasy, humor and insolence – to resonate and shine what France embodies in its history and its plurality. (…) My job is to integrate as many people as possible,” he explains to Telerama.
An opening ceremony full of secrets
Like the Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games (COJOP), the director expressed his support for Aya Nakamura in particular on X (formerly Twitter) on March 11.
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If he recognizes that the musical style of the performer of Pookie does not speak to everyone, he does not hesitate to condemn the discriminatory remarks of which the singer was the victim in this interview with Telerama : “Of course, by mixing rap, zouk and R’n’B in her afro-urban pop, Aya doesn’t please everyone. But the racism, the “classism”, the sexism of which she was a victim are unacceptable”.
Far from him the idea of giving in to the anger of the extreme right, Thomas Jolly intends to offer a show without “cultural discrimination”. And although he “yet ardently wish” seeing her perform during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, Thomas Jolly is careful not to confirm anything. The entire opening ceremony on July 26 is a well-kept secret. However, the French affirms that the media know much more today than what they could know before the Tokyo, Rio or London Olympics where secrets were fiercely guarded and respected! »
To find out what surprises Thomas Jolly has prepared for us, we will have to wait for the start of the Olympic Games, next Friday July 26.
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