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00:01:08too, well you would have to look at its
00:04:37now we're delivering retro
00:05:00was born during his plans, during the reign of Napoleon III, and
00:05:03during which the entire picture of Paris was transformed, I am now leading you into a seemingly not
00:05:07too large, but all the more wonderful building, here on the Grand
00:05:10Boulevard. We are in 1882, when Jules Grévy is the
00:05:14President of the Republic. In the same year, one of the editors of the newspaper Le Gaulois,
00:05:18a journalist named Meyer, thought that a place should be created
00:05:22that offers similar experiences to the
00:05:25boulevard press, like Paris Match, Le Gaulois, Le Voisier, in short, like the
00:05:28best boulevard newspapers of the time. This is how the Grévin Museum was created, where visitors
00:05:32could even touch the celebrities of their own time, those they talked about all the time anyway,
00:05:36and this happened when newspapers did not yet publish
00:05:40photos, at most only drawings.
00:06:20If you had the opportunity to put someone in here
00:06:22from 2007, who would you put in? Myself.
00:07:21"Good day, good day, not even that funny, this is how you have to pose here, well not really, this is how you have to take the pose, that's right, how long has it been, I've been here for seven hours, Tell me, do they ever ask you to
00:07:25retouch a few small flaws, for example, a
00:07:29small double chin? Of course, I also asked for that, that's true,
00:07:32look at that double chin you stuck on me, let's see, look at that double chin you
00:07:36carved there, but no, yes,
00:07:40yes,
00:08:13Yes, exactly, yes, yes, yes, we get the feeling
00:08:17that it needs to be reworked a little, well yes, the Grevin Museum invited me here, and
00:08:21I don't think I've changed, rather their technique
00:08:24has evolved, so they decided to create something that is closer to reality.
00:08:38What is the difference between the two works? The first time it happened differently.
00:09:04What are you doing to it now? You're detailing it, adding thin wrinkles,
00:09:07these are the final touches, I'm checking that everything is in order,
00:09:11that nothing has changed. and between the scanner and the clay,
00:09:14and of course I still need to make some corrections
00:09:17on it, including the direction of the gaze, so you make the necessary
00:09:21adjustments and make the eyeball, yes, and I produce a figure
00:09:24that is completely bald, has no hair, I see, this is just a skull,
00:09:28from this they make a mold and pour wax into it, then
00:09:32it will be in wax, I see, you decided to make it smiling
00:09:36now, but without teeth, most people open their mouths to a huge 32-tooth smile,
00:09:40but here it's just a closed-mouth smile.
00:09:51This wouldn't make much sense, we always
00:09:53try to make slightly different, varied facial expressions,
00:09:56including those that are not completely smiling, if
00:10:00that's how it resembles him best, then we'll do it, but I don't think even he
00:10:03would laugh with his mouth open all day.
00:10:07Thank you very much to both of you for letting us show this
00:10:10work process, I guess it's 15 hours of sitting.
00:10:25I'm meeting Veronik, I'm in the Column Hall of the Grévin Museum, this is a
00:10:29historically significant space, as this is where the Grévin Museum was opened to the public
00:10:32on June 5, 1882. I am here next to Madame
00:10:36Gandhi, good day, thank you for
00:10:39receiving me, why did those two gentlemen, Meyer and Mr. Grévin, open
00:10:42this place in 1882? This was mainly
00:10:46thanks to Arthur Meyer. I see. He was a journalist and edited the daily newspaper Le Golua.
00:10:49It was very popular at the time. He thought
00:10:53to himself that his readers might not know the faces of those he
00:10:56wrote about in his newspaper, so what
00:11:00if we created a three-dimensional
00:11:03newspaper, like this,
00:11:06there was no TV yet, as far as I know, and so, yes, the Grévin
00:11:09Museum is actually the first television, yes, the Grévin was born
00:11:13here, in this room, surrounded by these columns, under this
00:11:16dome, the decoration was specifically designed for this place, and here
00:11:20at that time we could also find all the famous personalities of the
00:11:22era.
00:11:32The optical theater is also very significant from a film historical point of view, what exactly
00:11:36is it? Émile Reynaud invented and
00:11:39realized the optical theater, and
00:11:42in 1892, the world's first animated film was shown
00:11:45here at the Grévin Museum, which was titled
00:11:48Poor Pierrot. Yes, it was incredibly
00:11:52successful, though poor Émile at the time painstakingly
00:11:55created all the animated films frame by frame,
00:11:58or rather, cell by cell. The idea of moving pictures was adopted by the Lumière brothers, among others,
00:12:02whom we can see here around the device they are working on. Walt
00:12:05Disney also expressed his admiration for the animated film in his
00:12:08works several times.
00:12:15Veronik, we are now in the Grevin theater, there are celebrities here. Roberto
00:12:19Benigni, Isabella, sugar celebrities
00:12:21are around us, but this hall also has historical significance.
00:12:41These two artists undertook to design and create the decoration of this wonderful
00:12:44theater, whose architect was otherwise named
00:12:48Rive. Naturally, Entan Burdé created the reliefs and
00:12:51all the sculptures. Jules Chéret was a famous poster designer
00:12:55at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th
00:12:58century. He painted this truly original atmosphere
00:13:01stage curtain, which is decorated with Commedia dell'arte figures, and which
00:13:05is truly stunning. It is certain that this is a wonderful backdrop for those famous
00:13:09people who visit here on certain notable occasions. That's
00:13:12right, how many figures are in the Grevin Museum today? 300
00:13:16wax figures make up the total number of figures in the museum. A large part of the figures
00:13:20are here due to their topicality, and in our historical section we
00:13:23present important personalities from the Middle Ages to Impressionism.
00:13:45Since the museum's opening in 1882, I imagine far more than 300
00:13:48personalities have been cast in wax. Of course,
00:13:52of course, as the most popular celebrities, artists and
00:13:55politicians are constantly changing. Over the past years, more than 200 wax
00:13:59figures have already been featured in our exhibitions. And
00:14:02where are those that have already been removed? What happens to them? Are they burned?
00:14:05Indeed, not a few of them really ended up in the
00:14:08fire, but we also have warehouses, and if we can, we preserve most of the figures
00:14:12even after they disappear from the headlines. We also have our
00:14:15own laws, just like the press. Thank you
00:14:18very much, Veronique. Thank you Eric, enjoy your visit. Then you'll laugh,
00:14:22I'll just go and adjust my little suit, my dear friend.
00:14:55"The final touches, and of course, before the clothes, comes the hair and the
00:14:59complexion, I present to you Valerie, who is currently working on the
00:15:02puppets, good day, Valerie, good day,
00:15:06who are you working on now? Nicolas Sarkozy, oh yes, there's
00:15:10the model opposite you, yes, yes, he doesn't have such long
00:15:13hair, no, no, the haircut comes later, but for the moment
00:15:16I'm just planting the hair fringe, we have a wig, a
00:15:20half-wig, and then I make the fringe. How do
00:15:22you do it?
00:15:32Now it stands steadily, no problem,
00:15:36it stands well, I would like to ask for something, yes, I know you will
00:15:39say it's not finished, not painted, but could we see Nicolas Sarkozy's
00:15:43face, well, you promised, I don't know if he would
00:15:46like it, but good for sure,
00:15:49it's not very nice now, because he doesn't have hair yet, and it's not
00:15:53painted, we can still recognize him, but here you go, yes, and now we can
00:15:56imagine what his face will look like at 70 years old, when he has less hair,
00:16:00yes, okay, well come with me, Valerie,
00:16:03I see all kinds of hands, scattered everywhere, I see it's completely ready.
00:16:37not a collection, this is enough, I'd rather say it's creepy, very
00:16:41scary, here you could find my eye
00:16:45retina, I see, the iris, well, this is not
00:16:49it, it's a little lighter, you have to carefully examine the iris
00:16:53branch, I see, there are very small and large eyes too, yes, there are small and
00:16:57large ones, and here the white is also important, because sometimes it's more bluish, okay, and now we are at a very
00:17:00important stage, the make-up of these faces, these personalities
00:17:05is underway, yes, it's not painted
00:17:08at all yet, but here's Lori, she's already being made up, this is already her
00:17:11second face, because she already has one downstairs in the museum, yes, this is her
00:17:15second head here, it's almost finished, but her hairstyle is still to come, it's not
00:17:18finished yet, you see, a few small adjustments are missing,
00:17:22refinements, smooth paint, not make-up paint, one would think that make-up tools
00:17:25are used for make-up, but no, yes, no, not at all, this is simple
00:17:29oil paint, but sometimes real cosmetics are used
00:17:33for painting eyes, but this is just oil paint now.
00:17:49Maryse, costume designer at the Grévin Museum, for about six
00:17:52years, good day, Maryse, good day, what
00:17:56are you working on, which one, oh, this is a very beautiful dress
00:17:59here, yes, this is very beautiful, this is Celine Dion's dress,
00:18:02which we are presenting in a Las Vegas setting, can we see it,
00:18:05I can show you, yes, of course. "It looks very beautiful, what
00:18:09material is it made of? This was sewn from silk, oh,
00:18:12wonderful, here it is, very, very beautiful, and how long is it, it's extremely large
00:18:16cut, you could say, a very beautiful dress, did you
00:18:20make it based on a photograph, or was it made based on the original
00:18:23dress, which was lent to us for a short time, we
00:18:27made an identical dress based on that, the same
00:18:30material, the same cut, are there any
00:18:33artists who give you their clothes, yes, of course,
00:18:36it happens." Well, I know that one of the first was singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg,
00:18:40who gave his famous shoe. Yes, his shoe
00:18:43and his suit, the shirt too, everything was his own.
00:18:47Yes, but when they don't give their clothes, then you have to make them, and that's your
00:18:50job. You have to make them, or you have to
00:18:54copy them. Based on the dress, or suit, that is actually.
00:18:58Yes. He also makes a lot of historical costumes, because there are a lot of historical scenes here too.
00:19:01What is this wonderful dress, can I lift it? Yes, of course. What
00:19:05is this here? Explain it to me, explain it. Actually, this is Catherine
00:19:08de' Medici's dress, and here too, here
00:19:11are many skirts, the underskirts,
00:19:14and then the corset,
00:19:17it's very similar to how we imagine this era,
00:19:20exactly, here, I'll lift it for you, here you go,
00:19:24the front, the back, this is Catherine de' Medici's dress, what did you
00:19:28work from, contemporary pictures, engravings, yes, for the historical
00:19:31scenes we do research, we have a quite significant historical
00:19:35document archive, I see, in this regard
00:19:38we do research, both regarding the cut and the
00:19:41materials, and of course the colors too, after that you just
00:19:44have to cut and make it.
00:19:47This is quite something, to work here at the Grévin Museum, this place is full of the
00:19:51memories of centuries. It's very pleasant here, it's a kind of
00:19:55virtual world, it's nice to get this close to these
00:19:58stars, and then not every costume designer has the opportunity
00:20:02to get close to every era.
00:20:06That's right, you're within a week.
00:20:12Exactly, that's right. What's your favorite memory of your profession,
00:20:15about dressing the copies, clones of the biggest
00:20:19stars? I think the most beautiful memories are the
00:20:23encounters I had with these artists, as for me, I have very pleasant memories of
00:20:27Henri Salvador. A vibrant,
00:20:31entertaining personality. Very entertaining, and it's also connected to my
00:20:34childhood, so, exactly.
00:21:00Good day, Elton John, good day, Fodell, good day, Henri
00:21:03Salvador, and good day, Henri Salvador, don't listen
00:21:07to him, thank you for being here, what do you think of
00:21:10him, I have to say, they did a good job of him,
00:21:13damn it.
00:22:20yes, yes, how awful it is to be called "connerie",
00:22:23because in French it means stupidity, great
00:22:26foolishness, to be called "connerie", that is, stupidity,
00:22:30anyway, thank you for being
00:22:32here, thank you, boss,
00:22:36Issar Salvador, then don't mess around,
00:22:48I have a meeting with Beatrice.
00:22:55Would you please speak quietly to Marguerite Yourcenar while I have a drink? Good day, Jean
00:22:59Reno, good day, Beatrice, who are the people
00:23:02most visited by visitors? There are
00:23:05several, but primarily Henri Salvador, Monica Bellucci,
00:23:09Gérard Jugnot, Jean Gabin, Mimie Mathy, Johnny Hallyday, and
00:23:12Jean Reno. Beatrice, who are the ones who have recently joined the Grévin
00:23:16Museum? A fantastic global superstar. Céline Dion
00:23:20yes, she's been here since January, before her, Laurent Gerra,
00:23:24Gérard Jugnot, Amélie Nothomb were placed here. Who decides
00:23:27which personalities can enter the Grévin Museum? It's very difficult to get
00:23:31in here. There is a so-called Grévin Academy, whose
00:23:35president is Bernard Pivot. Yes. This academy meets
00:23:38twice a year, composed of journalists with various interests,
00:23:42about a dozen. Every year we present them with a list
00:23:45containing the names of popular, well-known personalities. It was a stroke of luck
00:23:49that he was present.
00:24:20to participate in a jury, the Grévin Committee is a huge
00:24:24honor, because for me, the Grévin is in some
00:24:28sense the Pantheon of the living.
00:24:30It's too early for Raphael, a little too early for Kylian,
00:24:34that's my opinion, would you like to comment
00:24:36further.
00:24:40The main condition for someone to be admitted to the Grévin Museum is the degree of fame
00:24:44and recognition, or we could also say the magnitude of achieved glory,
00:24:48popularity. "We live in an age of disposable stars, who
00:24:51appear and are discarded by the audience and the media three months later,
00:24:55these don't need to be made, because we don't even have time to
00:24:58dust them off, no, no, no, no, no, I
00:25:02say this is very good,
00:25:05the most important thing remained recognition,
00:25:08popularity, that they should have something, a
00:25:10life's work, or something like that,
00:25:14and he, of course, yes, if
00:25:16you want, there are people
00:25:50"Our expectations coincide with those of the audience, they regularly
00:25:53write and tell us that they want these or those celebrities, so we put the
00:25:56celebrities on the lists, I must therefore also explain what our
00:26:00audience's expectations are, but I..." I do not participate in the debate, I do not
00:26:03vote, it could be something very funny too, at least that's what
00:26:07I say, I also chose Franck Dubosc, here is
00:26:10Romain Duris, Gad Elmaleh, José Garcia and Fabrice
00:26:14Luchini. It's difficult, no, there's plenty of
00:26:16choice. Now I ask our dear friends to
00:26:20leave us alone, because we have serious work to do. And this takes place in a completely
00:26:24closed session among the academics. Closed
00:26:28doors mean closed doors, as Bernard-Henri Lévy says, the door is either open
00:26:31or.
00:26:38The closed session is over, now we can hand over the list of
00:26:42nominees,
00:26:43come on,
00:26:47Winston Churchill and Callas,
00:26:50we could say, unanimously
00:26:53elected Fabrice Luchini, and
00:26:57Jean
00:26:57Garian.
00:27:02Excellent.
00:27:07"I have a meeting with Lydia, who is a tour guide, Lydia herself, well
00:27:11here she is, good day, I'm Eric, very pleased to meet you, please take a seat, a tour guide
00:27:15here in the museum, how many languages do you speak? I speak English, Spanish,
00:27:18French and German, do you know an anecdote about all 300 celebrities
00:27:21who are here? Yes, well yes, we'll check it right away, here's
00:27:25Callas, Callas is very famous for her jewelry, as well as her
00:27:29vocal technique, all right, very!"
00:27:34What can you say about Jean-Paul Gaultier? Jean-Paul Gaultier
00:27:37launched Naomi Campbell's career, who was incidentally the first
00:27:40non-white model. Look
00:27:43at that, and Jean Gabin, there? Jean Gabin. I'll repeat the famous
00:27:47line. You have beautiful eyes, you know? So I take a gentleman I like,
00:27:50I stand him next to me and make him repeat this famous compliment. So
00:27:54he flirts. And Orson Welles by your side. He made all of America believe
00:27:58that aliens had arrived in New York. That's true. In a
00:28:01radio broadcast in the 40s.
00:28:14Welcome to the Palace of Illusions, the Palace of Illusions was one
00:28:17of the attractions of the 1900 World's Fair, it stood next to the
00:28:21Trocadéro, and then good day, Nicolas, good day, Nicolas
00:28:25technician, he deals with the work going on here, so the palace stood at the
00:28:28Trocadéro, and then they brought it here,
00:28:35Nenar created this attraction for the 1900 Paris
00:28:38World's Fair, yes, and Gabriel Thomas, who liked this
00:28:41attraction very much, decided to buy it and placed it here in
00:28:451906, in the Grevin Museum, what is the principle of the structure, I see
00:28:48mirrors everywhere, I guess they reflect in all directions, so light play, yes, we have three
00:28:52scenes, yes, which are reflected back in a hexagonal room,
00:28:56so the whole process reminds one a little of a kaleidoscope,
00:29:00so every scene is reflected to infinity,