The meeting begins with a memory that has long thrilled Guillaume Béchet, who came from Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique) to discuss with Virginia Ledoyen. Our reader was 6 years old in 1979, the year the first series The Island of Thirty Coffins was broadcast on television. With my brothers, we made a game out of it to scare us.
In the new series inspired by the novel written by Maurice Leblanc in 1919, Virginie Ledoyen played Christine. This doctor one day receives a video showing that her baby is not stillborn, as she had believed for twenty years. She returns to the island of her youth, Sarek, to investigate.
To approach the shooting without reference, the actress did not want to watch the first fiction which starred Claude Jade, and she waited until the end of the shooting to read the novel. I find that we are faithful to the book of Maurice Leblanceven if the character of Christine is more complex.
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Virginie Ledoyen, heroine of “The island of thirty coffins”, a France 2 series shot in Finistère, is the guest of Sunday Ouest-France. © Marc Ollivier/Ouest-France
Three weeks of filming in Ouessant
In recent years, television has opened its screen wide to him: Just a look from Harlan Coben (2017), working-class melancholy (from Gerard Mordillat2018), and last year, They were ten and the touching series Nona and her daughters (by Valérie Donzelli). We have gone beyond the archetypes of characters on TV, less caricatural than before, better represented in their depth
. There are women in the writing, that changes, the women have more place in the fictions”, appreciate the interested party with a kindness that quickly puts our readers at ease.
Élizabeth Roux, a reader who came from Saint-Brieuc (Côtes-d’Armor) with her husband, asks her about the difficulties of her job and the way she prepares for her roles. When I read the story, I have an opinion on my character, I discuss it with the director. It is a rather collective work. One can be helped by an atmosphere.
Like the agonizing one of The Island of Thirty Coffins tour in Brittanylast spring. We stayed in Ouessant for three weeks. We couldn’t shoot everything there, it’s complicated to get the material there. We also shot in the Baie des Trépassés, in Crozon, in Guilvinec… And we ended up with the interiors in the Paris region.
“It’s great, it’s going to rain all the time”
Did you know Brittany before?
, launches Alain Roux. Yes, but not Finistère. I was told, it’s great, it’s going to rain all the time
: ideal weather for this thriller fantastic, supposed to take place in a big storm. But the weather was very nice during the three months of filming!
The radiant sky must have been darkened in post-production.
I discovered you in Jeanne and the wonderful boy, intervenes Guillaume Béchet, a film that I always enjoy watching.
I lived this shooting with a lot of pleasure, responds our guest. It’s about AIDS. You have to remember that at the time, people were afraid to touch the sick. It is however a solar film and very innovative.
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At 46, Virginie Ledoyen has an extremely dense film record, the result of a career earlier than we imagined. When she was sixteen days old, her mother accompanied a friend whose children were advertising
. As she waits with the infant in the car, she enters to warm up my bottle. And there they needed a baby to
an ad for a bank loan!
“A daughter of the people”
In the cinema, it was at the age of 9 that she took her first steps, in a vaguely erotic Franco-Italian film, The exploits of a young don Juan
. She specifies: I had a completely normal childhood
in the XVIIIe arrondissement in Paris and Aubervilliers. L
he shoots were sporadic, but it amused me a lot. » It also amused his mother, who went shopping with his father. A daughter of the people
smiles Alain Roux.
Do you remember the first time you were recognized on the street?
asks Elizabeth Roux. Yes, I was so proud! laughs the actress. I was 14, the day before I had been on TV in Sacred evening by Jean-Pierre Foucault.
Haha !
exclaim in the same nostalgic voice Mr. and Mrs. Roux.
The conversation turns to the presidential one. In the 1981 and 1988 campaigns, the actors easily took a position
observe Guillaume Béchet. Culture was then at the heart of the proposals. Today, it is non-existent in the programs, whatever the political color of the parties , she laments. So artists don’t commit.
Monday, March 21, 2022, France 2, 21 h 10.
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