Friday, December 13, 2024, Maxime Chattam éwas invited onto the set of Télématin, on France 2. In the midst of promoting his new book, Prime Time, the husband of the host Faustine Bollaert was a little overwhelmed about his private life.
© France 2 Maxime Chattam on the set of Telematin.
IN BRIEF
- On December 13, 2024, Maxime Chattam discussed his novel 'Prime Time' on France 2, reporting on a live hostage-taking.
- The book explores the ethical dilemmas of a television channel facing a live crisis situation.
- Discover how Faustine Bollaert influenced the writing of this captivating thriller.
A novel à suspense…In his latest book, Prime Time, Maxime Chattam recounts the live hostage-taking of the 8pm news anchor. Friday, December 13, 2024, on the set of Télématin, on France 2, he recounted : “The hostage-taker enters the set with his mask on, puts his gun to the presenter's temple and says to the camera: “If you cut the live broadcast, I'll kill him”. He asks himself at one point, for the channel, what do we do ? Do we assume to keep on air a guy who can use violence ?”.
After Having specified that the hostage-taker was masked and that his voice was distorted, the novelist added: “The question is: who is it ? Why is he there ? What are the demands ? For a TV channel, what do we do ? Knowing potentially of course that it can be an incredible audience”.
Maxime Chattam: “I didn't want people to judge her”
A bit curious, Damien Thévenot asked him: “How did the idea come to you ? Because it's evil Maxime and we say Maxime he is married to Faustine Bollaert so TV is what he knows quite a bit or not necessarily ?”. With a smile on his lips, Maxime Chattam replied: “Not necessarily no! Besides, it’s the opposite!”.
200% Deposit Bonus up to €3,000 180% First Deposit Bonus up to $20,000In all transparency, he explained : “For a very long time, I didn't want to write about TV for fear that people might say: “She's the one expressing herself through him”. I didn't want people to judge her. However, the world of TV for a novelist who writes thrillers is a little too tempting, because the arena is great! It took me a very long time before I free from this idea and to be able to go there quite simply! Especially since this is the news, this is information, this is not magazines. I said to myself: ‘There is still a distance, people will make the distinction’”.
Maxime Chattam: “He wouldn't exist if she wasn't in my life”
November 5, 2024, in the columns of Télé-Loisirs, it was then that his book was dedicated to his wife whom he had indicated : “She taught me to no longer live only through my books and that, that was my big problem of life. I spent more than forty years living through fiction, what I write to protect myself from something part, because in my books, I have control of my emotions. And Faustine who is a woman of emotions precisely, who is anchored in the dream ;eacute;el and who is the complete opposite of me, little by little, she taught me to anchor myself more in reality, to accept not having control the, à feel”.
Émoved, Maxime Chattam had added : “This book would not exist if she was not in my life, that's for sure, and beyond that, I wouldn't be the man I am today at 48 if she wasn't in my life. She made me better, I am aware of it, and it is the least thing to say it”.