00:00From the most famous village in ancient Gauls, straight to Portugal, or rather Lusitania.
00:06Asterix in Lusitania is the 41st album in the series, the 7th, without the hand of creator
00:11Albert Uderzó.
00:13Euronews spoke to the current authors Fab Carreau and Didier Conrad and asked why it
00:19took so long for the Gauls to have an adventure here.
00:22When we started the album, Portugal came immediately as a possibility, maybe also because we came
00:28to Portugal just after the Pict and that there was a certain insistence of the Portuguese
00:34to make an album with them.
00:35Fabrice, spontaneously, wanted to go there, so we were very happy.
00:39Like all the books in the series, this one plays with the stereotypes surrounding countries.
00:45From Fado to Pastéis de Nata, it's all here, but Fab Carreau wanted to add something else.
00:51I believe the hospitality wasn't necessarily part of the scenario at the beginning.
00:57At the beginning, I saw the gastronomy, the sodade, the morue, in the caractéristiques,
01:03the sodade, on is part of there-dessus, but it was not turned on the hospitality, on the
01:10côté chaleureux, accueillant des Portugais.
01:12And when we came with the editor, we realized that we had to add a little bit to this aspect-là.
01:19So I wrote it and added it in the scenario, on the supportive and supportive side of the
01:25Portuguese people.
01:26The publishers confirm in the first four days all sales records were broken.
01:33The presentation at the cinema in Lisbon was packed.
01:36After all, Lusitanians love Asterix and Obelix.
01:40We started to read and at the beginning we thought that we were not like that but as
01:45pages pass on to the end, we decided to admit that we are as well as well as it comes
01:50as a bit of a disclosure.
01:53We are always happy, we are always happy, we are always happy, we are very happy, we
01:56are always happy, we are very happy and we are very happy.
01:59I think this is a good thing to be sure to be Portuguese in three steps.
02:03It's true that Lisbon is a very different time from the Roman Empire,
02:08when it was called Olisipo.
02:10It was necessary to wait 41 albums for our friends Asterix and Obelix
02:15to come to here, to Lusitania, but it was worth the wait.
02:18The book is already a success, including between the Portuguese public,
02:23there were 5 millions of exemplars in 25 countries, 19 languages,
02:28including languages very little spoken, like the mirandese.
02:31Só que em Portugal foram feitos 80 mil exemplars.
02:34Ricardo Figueira com a imagem de Bruno Silva, Euronews, Olisipo, Lusitania.
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