“I was not convinced by the choice of Laura Smet”

He shone, in 2024, with his novel Winter warriors On Simo Häyhä, Finnish elite shooter during the Second World War. Therefore, But it is thanks to his thrillers that Olivier Norek. For example, former captain in the SDPJ 93 surveys and research, became known as a writer: Territories or In capelans mists. If he does not see the point of adapting his own works. For example, he likes to collaborate in the writing of original scenarios – the series Invisible or Everyone is lying . Furthermore, He also closely followed the development for France 2 of Surfacefiction in six “i not convinced choice laura episodes with Laura Smet. Similarly, Tomer Sisley, produced by Quad Drama – Iris Bucher and Roman Turlure. Therefore, He tells us more about this series, available today on France.TV (read criticism below) and from September 1 on France 2.

Le Figaro / TV Magazine. Consequently, – What was the genesis of your novel Surface published in 2019?
Olivier mink. Consequently, – Surface starts from the story of a young police captain who takes a gunshot in the face. Similarly, This person exists, her name is Babeth, she is a colleague to me. Furthermore, It was called one evening on a type of intervention which we know is a trap. Similarly, At 4 am, a young pregnant woman is being attacked at the bottom of the city. In addition, We know that there is no pregnant woman outside in the city at this hour … In addition, but even if there “i not convinced choice laura are 0.000001 % potentiality as it is, they go there. Consequently, Babeth returned disfigured with iron bars. Therefore, She told me that she heard the bones of her own skull break. In addition, We have become friends. Similarly, I told her one day that I wanted to write a broken character who dates back to the surface. Meanwhile, inspired by her. Moreover, She gave me authorization. However, I gave him the first edition. After reading it. she said to me: “I will be able to offer it to my loved ones because I was not able to tell what I had experienced, I did not find the words, the emotions, the feelings”.

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How did you approach his “resurrection”?
By sending it to a small village at the edge of a lake to resolve a Cold Case. It is therefore a woman who does not want to show her “i not convinced choice laura face because she is disfigured and feels diminished. She wants to hide but will have to reveal herself and go to people for her investigation. And for that accept and rebuild. It interested me more than the resolution of the case!

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What do you think were the main difficulties for adaptation?
When Iris contacted me. I laughed under the cape because I knew there were 100 pages of introduction into a hospital and that it was not going to work. Plus a Cold Case over 25 years including three different families. made up of three or four suspicious people, no more suspects, in short a plot with 15 characters … a basket of crabs! Another pitfall, part of the story takes place underwater, with special effects. “i not convinced choice laura It is an expensive project to be qualitative. Iris, also producer of Charity bazaarinvited me to the first. The Bazaar fire convinced me.

“When I saw Laura. that was not going at all. She is far too large, too feline, sure of herself ”

Olivier mink

Why not have adapted it yourself?
The adaptation job is to explode the book and rebuild it. I find it a shame to rewrite a scenario from the novels that I wrote – I have so. much to say that it would almost bother me. I prefer to discover someone else’s vision. That an entire orchestra puts itself in the service of my book. Even if the first vision is often difficult …

What do you think of the choice of Laura Smet “i not convinced choice laura to embody your heroine?
When I learned the choice of Laura, I did not know what to do with this information! I came to the set for a cameo (cut in editing. editor’s note) and indeed, when I saw it, it was not going at all. She is far too large, too feline, sure of herself. The scene takes place on a train. she sits in front of me, I look at her injury and, by her own glacier blue look, she makes me look down. Metaphorically, it means it’s no longer my story, it’s its story. I found it interesting for the author to give up, validated. When she entered the wagon, it was Noémie! She was sagged, sitting on her belly that she did not have with an old rotten bag … There was a job of appropriation of the character. Laura no longer existed.

Why was the series not shot in Decazeville (Aveyron). as in the novel?
When I wrote this book. I wanted to be trusted in the village of my parents in Aveyron, which became my village, and in the surrounding municipalities. I always said to myself that if I had a little celebrity as an author as an author. Additionally, I will write in the village of my childhood, to tell people how much I loved them. It was the essence of my project. And then I realized that there was no lake in Decazeville, I added it in my novel (laughs) !

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Can we imagine a sequel?
There is a real danger. Noémie’s investigation is also its reconstruction. If we write a second season. the people who will meet “i not convinced choice laura her will do the same step back while for us it is settled, and she too has accepted. It would be shooting the string. In my opinion, he is a unique story character. But a series derived from the other cops of this village police station, why not?