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Coffee and chocolates with Tutu.

Wednesday, 6 August 2008, at 08:26

A few weeks ago, I received an email from a French filmmaker, Emmanuel Itier, who explained that he will be in South Africa in August to interview Archbishop Desmond Tutu for the penultimate leg of his documentary surrounding “world peace and finding God”, featuring interviews with Annie Lennox, Depeche Mode, Jim Carrey, Deepak Chopra, the Dalai Lama, rabbis, imams, Vatican priests, atheists, authors, scientists, and even the High Priest of the Church of Satan, and wanted to know whether or not he may interview me (along with one or two related cartoons).

After being convinced that Emmanuel was not, in fact, Whackhead Simpson, I agreed, and we ended up having coffee and chocolates with (the very funny) Archbishop Desmond Tutu yesterday morning.

The last photo is of - from left to right - Claude (the cameraman), Emmanuel, and myself.

The documentary is called The Invocation, and the website is www.theinvocation.com.

(Edit: follow-up blog post can be found here.)

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21 comments so far

  1. 1 amandzing
    Wednesday, 6 August 2008, at 08:50

    very cool, dude!

  2. 2 CC
    Wednesday, 6 August 2008, at 09:12

    Tu Brilliant :mrgreen:

    Well Done J!! You are sure getting around :grin:

    Can’t wait to see the movie!

  3. 3 Karl
    Wednesday, 6 August 2008, at 10:01

    Awesome. Hope we get to see it here in SA!

  4. 4 Fairynuff
    Wednesday, 6 August 2008, at 10:52

    That must have been incredible.
    So it seems that our Jeremy is getting to be quite well known.

  5. 5 Darryl
    Wednesday, 6 August 2008, at 12:13

    YOU’RE LIKE, FAMOUS. OR SOMETHING.

  6. 6 Rico
    Wednesday, 6 August 2008, at 12:15

    Hey — very cool — does Tutu read B5?

  7. 7 Champagne Supernova
    Wednesday, 6 August 2008, at 12:23

    Tutu?
    now thas influence right there..
    Nice one Jeremy!

  8. 8 Ray H
    Wednesday, 6 August 2008, at 14:15

    :neutral: Damn, and the money shot was out of focus … LOL

  9. 9 Judy
    Wednesday, 6 August 2008, at 14:32

    Wow… I thought you were arsing around for a moment there! Cool. So what was it like to speak to Tutu?

  10. 10 Hester
    Wednesday, 6 August 2008, at 15:04

    That is so cool!!! Imagine you could go to the same interview as Jim Carrey! That would have been funny… everybody wants a slinky, gotta get a slinky, slinky…slinky…GO SLINKY GO!!!!! Oh man, I HAVE to watch Ace Ventura again.

    I almost thought Mr Tutu had a camel toe. Almost.

  11. 11 Sonsie
    Thursday, 7 August 2008, at 08:04

    :lol: :lol: :lol: @ Hester!

    Way cool J!…you must be famous….Or something :grin:

  12. 12 Jacoba
    Thursday, 7 August 2008, at 08:50

    I wondered why you’ve been so quiet lately. You are so fortunate to have met Tutu - I would love to have met him. I think he’s a man of so much integrity and I have enormous respect for him.

    You’re quiet a hottie on the sly there, aren’t you J? :wink:

  13. 13 kakstorie
    Thursday, 7 August 2008, at 10:05

    Jeremy,I’m proud of you , you moving up in the ranks, imagine Jim Carrie sitting at home watching the documentary and seeing you also, THAT’S COOL MAN!
    CONGRATULATIONS!
    (Imagine, the film makers asking you and Tutu, the only two South Africans…….awesome!) :smile: :cool: :cool: :grin: :grin: :razz: :razz: :wink: :wink: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool:

  14. 14 Vanessa
    Thursday, 7 August 2008, at 11:26

    WOW! WOW! WOW! :mrgreen:

  15. 15 CC
    Thursday, 7 August 2008, at 11:48

    I agree with you Jacoba….. J is quite a hottie :grin:

    I wonder if he’s taken? :wink:

  16. 16 Judy
    Thursday, 7 August 2008, at 13:23

    Watch out! Janel’s gonna open up a can whoopass! No, J’s not a hottie, there’s a reason the photo with Demond is blurred :wink: Kidding!

  17. 17 boychild
    Friday, 8 August 2008, at 14:33

    :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

    Dang, you met the BIG T, hope he approved of how you cartonize him and the other big politico’s.

    Wish I could have had such a oppertunity.

    Congrats J

  18. 18 Janel
    Saturday, 9 August 2008, at 14:40

    i’ve always thought tutu has a bit of a funy side, thanx for confirmin it ;-)

    also congrats on the documentary!

  19. 19 Shaun Lee
    Monday, 18 August 2008, at 22:59

    J, I’m Emmanuel’s Brother in law, (married to his sister). He’s an amazing guy, You have to admire his energy, so I wish you lots of Luck for the future

  20. 20 Emmanuel
    Tuesday, 19 August 2008, at 02:07

    :mrgreen: Yo Everyone! This is I, the weird French dude who came to Cape Town and met with our now great friend Desmond Tutu…..Sure this man was impressive but what was even more impressive was the overall warm welcome we got from all of you in Cape Town. Especially from Jeremy and his girlfriend! It’s been almost 2 weeks and we’re longing to come back to South Africa…
    The movie http://www.TheInvocation.com will be totally done in 2 months so watch out for our ’second coming’ in the Spring of 2009….and this time we will all have a grand party with grand South African wines and food!
    Till then, Cheers and Peace!
    Love,

    Emmanuel
    Ze Director.

  21. 21 janice
    Thursday, 28 August 2008, at 12:45

    that settles it!! i now have the best excuse ever for only drinking nescafe coffee :mrgreen: Tutu drinks it!! : :grin:

    awsome J!! very well done indeed!!