André Dussollier will join RTL radio in the fall to host his own show

Comedian André Dussollier will join RTL in the fall to host a new show from Monday to Thursday at 8 p.m., the M6 ​​group station announced to AFP on Tuesday, July 8, confirming a report from Le Parisien . The 79-year-old actor will launch into a story each evening, " in the fields of sport, society, and culture," according to the daily.

At 8:30 p.m., journalist Isabelle Choquet will "take over" for an interview related to this story, the newspaper specifies.

This new feature will occupy the slot previously allocated to Faustine Bollaert 's "Heroes" program, with the presenter having to present a new testimony session from 9:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.

Having won three Césars, including Best Actor in 1998 for Alain Resnais's On connu la chanson , and a Molière, André Dussollier is now going to try his hand at radio hosting.

A medium that he "likes a lot" , as he explained last year on RTL: " Orson Welles said: ' Radio has this advantage over cinema, that on radio, the screen is wider'" , the actor declared. "We imagine people, we function, we are active when we hear voices or noises. […] The voice has always been a precious element for me" , he added.

The man who was first discovered by the general public in 1985 with Coline Serreau's Three Men and a Cradle notably performed in André Targe's radio play Lettres d'Aymonville for Radio France in 1991. He also gave readings on France Culture in 2020 during the first lockdown.

André Dussollier joins the list of new recruits at RTL, where journalists Anne-Sophie Lapix, Marc-Olivier Fogiel, and Augustin Trapenard are also expected to join in the fall. RTL is the second most-listened-to radio station in France, with a cumulative audience share of 9% in the second quarter, according to the latest Médiamétrie survey.