TF1 CHAMPION. Kendji Girac is showing the TV movie “Champion” Monday July 5, 2022 on TF1, which tackles the subject of illiteracy.
[Mis à jour le 5 septembre 2022 à 15h47] Champion is the new TF1 TV movie to discover this Monday, September 5, 2022. Kendji Girac plays the leading role in it and takes his first steps as an actor. Front page viewers will be able to discover the story of Zack, a young man who suffers from illiteracy but who has always managed to hide it. Until the day his father falls into a coma, pushing him to take over the family business.
Champion is a TV movie on the TV program at 9:10 p.m. this Monday on the first channel. Note that it is already available on the Salto subscription streaming platform. Faced with Kendji Girac, viewers will certainly recognize Aurélie Pons (Salomé from Here it all begins), in the role of the girlfriend of the hero, but also Jean-Michel Tinivelli, seen previously in Alice Nevers. This fiction will be to discover in replay from this Tuesday on the MyTF1 site.
Synopsis – Zack, a talented carpenter, flourishes in his passion, boxing, and his life as a couple with his girlfriend Marjorie. But when his father has a bad fall and falls into a coma, Zack is forced to take over the family business. However, he had hidden that he could not read.
- Kendji Girac as Zack
- Lubna Azabal as Gloria
- Francois Creton: Jo
- Jean-Michel Tinivelli: Freddy
- Hanane El Yousfi: Inès
- Aurélie Pons as Marjorie
- Keanu PeyranAnthony
- Marius Bruna: Adamo
This is not Kendji Girac’s first television appearance, since he distinguished himself by winning The Voice in 2014 and then as a juror for The Voice Kids. But with Champion, the singer made his debut as an actor. He had indeed never played in a fiction before. For the needs of the role, Kendji Girac took boxing lessons, did not hesitate to change his haircut or to gain mass in order to correspond more to the character.