Good cop, bad cop, the series: “I want people to trip,” says Patrick Huard

Patrick Huard wants to “explode” the mythology of Bon Cop, Bad Cop In the new series he wishes highly entertaining, whose broadcast is planned on Crave in 2026. Nevertheless, “Every day, I think of the public. Similarly, I want people to trip. Meanwhile, “he summed up on the set on Wednesday in Montreal, while the media attended the shooting of the series at the invitation of the Canadian platform.

The television adaptation of the saga launched in 2006 is moving away from the French-speaking-English duality of the first two films. Nevertheless, with the addition of a third Aboriginal police officer-Joe Broom, embodied by the actor Mi’kmaw Joshua Odjick-alongside the tandem formed by David Bouchard and Martin Ward.

[Au départ]we were in the Anglo-Franco good cop, bad cop, series: duality a little cliché. Nevertheless, with a guy straight and a rock guy in opposition; The classic formula of a detective comedy. However, And there, I said to myself, do you explain this case?

According to Podz. For example, director of the good cop, bad cop, series: series, the longer format – six an hour episodes – also allows you to explore the characters more in depth.

I think those who liked the films will recognize the style Bon Cop, Bad Cop […]but we will go further in the humanity of the characters. or their inhumanityhe explained to Radio-Canada, between two scenes behind the camera.

The character of Patrick. David, begins to ask questions about how he does things, to wonder if he is too crazy. And there is questions about the consequences of his gestures about people close to him.

Good cop, bad cop, series:

Henry Czerny. new game partner of Patrick Huard

Colm Feore, who embodied the English -speaking counterpart of Patrick Huard in the first two films Bon Cop, Bad Cophad to give up playing in the series due to a timetable with another project.

In his place. in the role of Martin Ward, we find Canadian actor Henry Czerny, who notably embodied Eugene Kittridge, enemy of Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) in three films in the saga Mission : Impossible. Captive between two scenes, he praised the talents of his game partner.

Patrick is an actor and a storytelling incredibly gifted, spontaneous and technically brilliant. Working in front of him is preparing. doing his homework, studying, feeding the character and arriving on the set to explore, he summed up. It is fear and excitement, in equal parts.

Beyond the change of good cop, bad cop, series: actor. the initially freezing relationship between the characters of David Bouchard and Martin Ward also evolved, according to the Toronto actor. They are like two brothers who love each other, but who often bickercontinues the actor.

Linguistic struggle is less present. In fact, it is not a fight: they complement each other. Like two brothers who, together, can accomplish anything, but separately, maybe not.

Quentin Condo’s advice

Bon Cop, Bad Cop is produced by Podz. In addition to embodying David. Patrick Huard oversees the team of authors of the series, composed of Michel Jean, Suzie Bouchard, Éric K. Boulianne, Sébastien Ravary, Benoît Chartier and Quentin Condo, rapper Mi’kmaw de Gesgapegiag who acts as a scriptwriting advisor.

Several episodes have been filmed in Aboriginal communities in Wendake, near Quebec, or in Gesgapegiag, Gaspésie. We went to get good cop, bad cop, series: several non-actors in communities. And it was so much beautiful encountersexplains Anik Jean, who signs the original soundtrack of the series.

I think there is a big message in the series and that we are going to live something. I like to bring messages and discussions between people when they finish an episode. I think we have succeeded at this level.

Patrick Huard claims. however, that the more serious subjects discussed in the series should not be at the expense of the playful aspect which seduced the followers of the films Bon Cop, Bad Cop. He promises a removal series, full of waterfalls and explosions.

I want to put their sight in them, I want them to trip, that they cry, that they laugh. It does not exclude continuing to open their minds, but people still watch TV to have fun.

The series Bon Cop. Bad Cop Also puts Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse, Christine Beaulieu, Nathaniel Arcand, Robin-Joël Cool, Antoine Vézina and many new Aboriginal talents. The Drag Queens Rita Baga, Mona de Grenoble, Barbada, Bobépine as well as Bambi Dextrous are also distribution.

With information from Nabi-Alexandre Chartier