Jean-Marc Morandini on the set of “Mediasphere” (LCI) in June 2015. – IBO / SIPA

Jean-Marc Morandini in turmoil. Accused by a survey Inrocks of pushing players to show off and masturbate when casting a web series developed by his production company Not Zap, the host told AFP he expected complaint for “defamation”.

What does Morandini?

“I’ll file a complaint,” said the leader told AFP. According Closer, Morandini was “in shock” and denounced “a load paper, made to descend.” Via Europe 1, where it has since 2003 morning Le Grand Direct Media , it formally denies the accusations of the magazine.



What does the investigation of Inrocks

in a survey of eight pages documented by photos and emails, the magazine recounts the scenes of the web series Falcons , to “the life of a team soccer in the Paris suburb “. Three episodes posted on Dailymotion were removed 15 days ago. “Catherine,” the casting director, would have pushed through emails young actors, aged 18 to 26 years, to send naked pictures to locker room scenes. While a player refuses, she insists, explaining that other comedians have “chosen to play it more provocatively, sometimes with an erection, or going further provocation as a masturbation. “

In August 2015,” Catherine “had asked one of the candidates if he was capable of doing” a real blow job “, and” to do that with JM, TV and radio star ” , according to The Inrocks . But the most shocking move for the exchange with an actor about his little brother 14 years. “Catherine” have suggested, according to an email seen by Inrocks, they come together in the casting and first send a video: “If you masturbate you as you approach, for example. It can have fun, and also? “.

Except that” Catherine “does not exist and sometimes uses the masculine in trade, and the magazine suggests that it could be Jean-Marc Morandini himself. At the final hearing, the actor says he was facing the facilitator in his office. “He asked me if he could take pictures of me naked, ‘for the purpose of casting’. I had already sent to Catherine before, but I agreed. We were both and took pictures of me naked with his smartphone, “recount The Inrocks .

Actors have doubts of which they are part in the” CEO “Do not Zap Production. Morandini response: “In Catherine, to be clear, we continue to use that name since leaving as it is on all the ads we published. It is therefore the team members who manage it. ” But the leader denies being behind the nickname because it has “a little something else to do.”



What does Europe 1?

The castings were reportedly on the premises of the radio, where works Jean-Marc Morandini. According Télérama, there was a crisis meeting 19:00. “Management finds this article and the allegations it contains and which it knows nothing. She interviewed Jean-Marc Morandini who denies formally and informed it of its intention to complain, “said the station in a statement. This is also the commotion of fighting in iTV, where Jean-Marc Morandini is expected in September.

What says an actor in the webseries

Matthieu Thiery 18 and Enzo embodied in the series, her first role in a professional production. Contacted by 20 Minutes via Twitter, he recounts his experience: “I knew Jean-Marc Morandini through a singer friend. I have not spent casting, Jean-Marc Morandini was never there during filming. And he was never to cross a line. “He said he never” suffered blackmail “to push him to undress. “Everything has always been very clear, black and white, if a player refuses a scene, it was not a problem. “He has refused” normal naked scene that I did not do. ” And investigation of Inrocks what the other actors? “With a friend we are astonished, we do not deal with the private lives of others, I do not have too much contact with them. “He concludes:” The pseudo-journalist Inrocks just trying to dismantle. Nothing more. “

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