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Apple TV+ ‘Carême’ Turns World’s First Celebrity Chef into Sex-Oozing Rock Star: ‘We Spent Hours Looking at Lenny Kravitz and Mick Jagger’
In Apple TV+ Series ‘Carême,’ Opening Series Mania, Benjamin Voisin Turns the World’s First Celebrity Chef into Sex-Oozing Rock Star.
“I wanted to avoid the usual ‘period drama style’ and give Carême this sexy, rock’n’roll attitude, which Benjamin also has in real life. In the show, produced by Banijay Entertainment ’s Shine Fiction in France and by VVZ Production (“Eiffel”) and inspired by “Cooking for Kings: The Life of Antonin Carême, The First Celebrity Chef” by Ian Kelly – and created by Kelly and Davide Serino – promising patissier Carême draws the attention of powerful men thanks to his elaborate creations – and after accidentally saving Napoleon’s life. Carême’s faced with his sexuality, his professional desire to become a great chef, finally his immersion into a political world he doesn’t know, but learns its codes as he goes along.
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