“My ear was ringing during the whole show. (…) I almost vomited”: famous for his “slaps”, the influencer Ragnar le Breton now dreams of cinema

Ragnar le Breton, un physique mais aussi une tête bien sarcastique. MAXPPP – Jean François Ottonello

A big mouth who speaks frankly without taboos, Ragnar the Breton, the hired slapstick on the internet, can now be seen on the big screen. 

Influencer specializing in slapping, comedian, MMA fighter… Ragnar le Breton, star on social networks, has worn many hats since he became known in 2021 but he now dreams of starring on the big screen.

In the meantime, it is on Amazon's Prime Video streaming platform that his Viking physique with a laughing look and a loose tongue begins 2024, in the film "Number 10" . This 1.97 m colossus plays a wily player agent, who takes care of a young footballer hesitating between the jerseys of France and Senegal.

Flowering language

A role far from the pairs of slaps and flowery language that allowed Matthias Quiviger – his real name – to reach a million subscribers on Instagram. He, who also confined himself to this register in six feature films in 2023, including "Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom by Guillaume Canet, now says he wants to diversify, at 34.

"The mistake would be to lock oneself into a character. It's as if Jean Dujardin was doing Brice de Nice for 30 years. It wouldn't make any sense. (…) I believe that you have to know how to do everything to be an actor,” he confided to AFP, during the presentation of ' quot;Number 10.

The Viking of MMA

In 2024, the native of Suresnes (west of Paris) will also play the leading role in a comedy about a Viking and will participate in the television series "La Cage" by Franck Gastambide, on the world of mixed martial arts (MMA according to their English acronym), he who had his first fight in January 2023, losing to professional fighter Xavier Lessou.

It's a change of dimension for the man who evolved as a semi-professional basketball player at 17 before giving birth, in 2021 on social networks, to the character of Michel Venum, who has become famous for the monumental slaps he distributes to extras in short humorous videos.

300 euros to take a slap

"I pick them up at the bar often. They come if we offer them a little money, he says, sometimes up to 300 euros to receive 'full iron signs'. or "rifles", inventions of his own to qualify these slaps.

From "Touche Pas à mon Poste" on Skyrock radio, Ragnar le Breton made himself known to the youngest with his racist remarks, rednecks and "old France" of his character. This led to him being, in September 2022, picked up by the YouTube channel of the magazine Valeurs Actuelles, which dedicated a video to him entitled "L'black humor is not dead& ;quot;.

Rants, freedom of speech, he stands out on Instagram 

Ragnar distances himself and invokes the second degree: "I consider myself in the middle. (…) Religious extremists and fascists cannot stand me. I don't like people who want to crush others. He claims to be "outspoken" in his sketches and freedom of speech, particularly on Instagram.

He multiplies his rants and positions, particularly on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after the Hamas attack on October 7. "It's the role of an artist to take a stand on issues that affect people. It's not because you have followers on Instagram that you have to shut up, continues this father of two who wants to live in a world of Care Bears.

Fan of Franck Dubosc

In his show "Heuss", prohibited for children under 16, this fan of Franck Dubosc has been addressing subjects since 2022 ranging from social diversity to religion to sport. .. without forgetting the slaps.

Change recently: he is the one who receives one from a member of the public. Recently in Toulouse, by a rugby player: "I had a ringing ear during the whole show. (…) I almost threw up, he remembers, hilariously.