This is a program that is likely to get people talking! This Monday, May 2, Thierry Ardisson is at the helm, on France 3, ofhotel of time. The principle of this program: to revive the time of a prime-time a disappeared legend, with whom he talks in the sumptuous setting of the Meurice hotel, in Paris. First “guest”: Dalida. A program made possible thanks to a revolutionary process, as Thierry Ardisson explained to us. “We have developed, with the company Mac Guff, a technological process called “Face Retriever”. For Dalida, for example, we entered a lot of videos of her into the “machine”, which learned her face before applying it to that of the actress I had in front of me. For it to work, it had to reproduce his gestures, his way of standing, and his way of speaking, because it was his voice that was then reworked, “dalidaïsé“.
A “huge resemblance” according to Orlando
The brother of the singer Orlando, who worked hand in hand with the man in black, viewed the first images with emotion, as he told us during the press conference of the program. “It’s very moving to see her live like that again, to see her in her daily life. Thierry had sent me some images by phone but this is the first time I’ve seen them with sound, it’s stunning. The resemblance is enormous. The text she pronounces is exactly what she could have said. Thierry showed me a first scenario. I made remarks to him saying for example ‘Dalida wouldn’t have said it exactly like that. I have provided as much detail as possible. I’m hellish about that, it’s my character, I don’t let anything pass!”
“Dalida was a very modest person in life“
And Orlando to continue:By force of circumstance, I became the guardian of Dalida’s memory. I’ve always wanted to treat her as if she were present and therefore make her benefit from current technologies. So I didn’t hesitate when Thierry submitted the idea to me. He has a lot of courage, his show is revolutionary, he has always taken a lot of risks in his life. Afterwards, it’s true that this time machine is a bit scary because we say to ourselves ‘Where is it going to stop?’. And then Dalida was a very modest person in life. She always said: ‘You have to be modest in life to then perform a strip tease on stage and be shameless’.
Is he afraid of the reactions of the singer’s fans, who will celebrate Tuesday, May 3, the 35th anniversary of his disappearance? “No, because I got them used to treating Dalida as if she were always there. There are no words to define its popularity, it affects all generations, it’s incredible!“