Even before taking the podcast creation course at Gobelins, I set myself a challenge: to create a podcast in episodes over the course of the year on the theme of the voice in film: «Lend me your voice to write a film». The voice as a source of fascination and inspiration.

Listen, for example, to Pierre Coffin, the French co-director of Moi Moche et Méchant, who had the good idea of lending his voice to two or three Minions... before having to dub them all. Remember the American actress Lauren Bacall, whose natural voice was rather nasal? She mesmerised audiences the world over with her lines, which suddenly became hoarse on screen (through hard work, in fact). And what can we say about Bob de Niro, whose reputation was born of a line «You talkin’ to me» that we all knew before seeing Taxi Driver.

Personally, I love Laetitia Dosch's voice (the illustration shows her at my microphone in 2017 at the Cannes Film Festival on the Arte boat). In La Bataille de Solférino or in her film Le Procès du chien, I love her oscillations between assurance and uncertainty, as if balancing on a thread ready to break.

More than the words, I think it's the voice that carries them that matters.