Best-selling author Leila Slimani and Fanny Herrero, the acclaimed writer of the French TV series Call My Agent, revealed in an interview on Tuesday that they have been collaborating on the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics. Slimani, the Franco-Moroccan author of Lullaby, a book about a killer nanny, called it a "huge honour" to be asked to take part having arrived in France as an 18-year-old. She promised "joy, emulation, movement, excitement and sparkle, and not only those famous philosophical values that France displays sometimes with a bit too much self-assurance.
" Herrero, whose series about a Parisian talent agency has been one of France's biggest cultural exports of recent years, said she had been invited to develop a plot for the July 26 ceremony on the river Seine. "My first reflex was that the job was too big and too beautiful for me. I was scared," Herrero told Le Monde of the invitation from Paris 2024 ceremony director Thomas Jolly.
Herrero, a major French cultural export, shared that she was invited to craft a plot for the July 26 ceremony on the Seine River. Photo: AFP "Then I said to myself that it was a unique adventure in life," she added. The ceremony would celebrate France, its history and its attachment to universal human rights but "we wanted to avoid our natural tendency to lecture people," Herrero added.
The Paris Games are set to kick off with an unprecedented parade on the Seine that will see 6,000-7,000 athletes sail 6km (four miles) down the r.
