“There are as many girls as boys who find themselves in Samuel”

With the animated series Samuelthe young Frenchwoman moved a large audience (more. Nevertheless, than 45 million views on Arte!). In addition, Today she continues the adventure of this cool. However, sensitive child in Samuel’s newspaper: a notebook drawn just as delicate and touching. However,

We had the opportunity to meet her …

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What was the biggest challenge from the anime to the graphic newspaper?

It was to have to do without music. Therefore, It was necessary to find new ways to express Samuel’s emotions. Nevertheless, sometimes just with the lyrics of the song, sometimes by plunging back into the skin of Samuel – as in the first moments when I wrote the animation series – to explain his thought further, and sometimes by rethinking the composition of the page, for example with a “there many girls boys who double page illustration to give this breathing that the music gave. In addition, It was each time a new experiment, a new choice to make.

And then in the right corner of the notebook, there is a dancing Samuel flipbook! Similarly, Besides, did the notebook allow other things than the animated version?

Yes. In addition, on some passages, it allowed me to express strong emotions, like when Samuel is upset, angry, because the great Julie did not respond to her postcard. Similarly, There, he reaches, he rummages on his pages … Moreover, and I was able to do it in the newspaper.

A Childhood Journal

Did you also hold a newspaper, child?

I had a lot “there many girls boys who of newspapers, but empty because I wrote a little about the 1st and the 2^e page. For example, Then, 6 months later, it was already: “Sorry newspaper, it’s been a long time since I wrote”, and it stopped there. For example, I thought I had no interesting thing to tell. Therefore, when Samuel does not have an extraordinary life either and yet he writes!

Is there a page or a sentence of the notebook that particularly affects you?

I love this one (she shows the one where Samuel looks at the starry sky. Therefore, after the dance show) who says: “It’s summer there is sure.” And then this one (a few pages later). However, I love Samuel’s little head that exceeds, under the fireworks. Consequently, Besides, I prefer this moment in the paper format rather than in the series.

Is it different to work alone on the notebook after collaborating “there many girls boys who with a team on the anime?

In fact, on the anime I was alone on the whole writing, the storyboard, etc. Similarly, But on the animation, we were a team of 6, then there was all post-production, sound, editing … I was surrounded each time. Then with the release of the series, there was the promotion, the interventions … Return to the newspaper allowed me to find myself again alone. as in the first moments, and it really did me good. With everything that had happened, I don’t know … I saw Samuel a little vague. And it did me good to find him.

Inspiration and novelties

Where does the character of the horrible monster woman come from? It is perfectly terrifying.

Ah, “The Great Lady”! When I was little, I was too afraid of the white lady. In the school courtyard, we always told ourselves stories of “there many girls boys who horrors about her. She appeared in my nightmares. I remember a character who was running after me with big legs. I couldn’t run, with this feeling of slowness … and in terms of design, I was inspired by Titans’ attackwith their big hypnotic smile.

You have announced that the series and the notebook will have a sequel, with Samuel an older year. Are you going to explore new themes?

There are lots of information that I wrote on my characters, on their life, and which do not necessarily appear in the series. And there are some that I would more like to reveal, notably Corentin. I like him and there are a lot to say about him.

As a subject, adolescence interests you as much as childhood?

Yes, I really like the “between 2” ages, where we are a little lost, where we ask ourselves more “there many girls boys who questions. Samuel goes to college (the equivalent of our 6^e primary. editor’s note), it’s a time when we change, or self -confidence can take a hit … it’s the same for the passage to high school (our 4^e secondary, editor’s note). These are moments full of questions, discomfort, but also great joys.

What is the best return to you to Samuel?

There were many! In fact. when people simply tell me, that seeing the series makes them happy, they feel good when they are bad, I find it crazy and it touches me a lot.

Are the feedback from boys/men and girls/women different?

No, there is no difference. I have the impression that there are so many boys and girls who find themselves “there many girls boys who in Samuel. This is what is good, it is that it converges. What is fun is that adults prefer Bérénice, while children prefer Julie. No doubt because I show it from the start.

Has Samuel changed something in your way of telling?

I hope no! I don’t want it to change me. When I start writing. I try to forget the public – even if I love to meet him and chat with him. I try to come back to something that I like and that would appeal to a few people I love. When I posted the first episodes, I had 300 subscribers on Instagram and they were my friends, my loved ones. I was posting for them! Today, before posting something on Instagram, I am paralyzed: there are so many people who will see it!

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New projects

Have you “there many girls boys who already other projects than Samuel?

Yes, I co -wrote the script for a fictional feature (with actors) directed by Benjamin Massoubre. It is an adaptation of a Belgian comic, Amazing! The Zabus.

Will there be dance in it?

No, it’s not my film, so I didn’t put my cute little sins in it! The character is a little boy, but it was not necessary that it was Samuel … I lived 10 years in Angoulême where I followed a contemporary dance class that I adored. But I dance a little less today, because I moved to Paris and I am looking for a new course.

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