Serie (6/8) The actress is one of the flagship actresses of the series, present since the beginning in 2017. She confides in her game in the series, the future love stories of her character and on anecdotes.
What have you always liked in the character of Marianne for eight years?
I think it’s the multiplicity of game facets that I like. Marianne, she is not confined to a style of play. I have been a lot to play tragic, dramatic things, a lot of comedy. As I am very comfortable in both, for me it’s a pleasure.
Isn’t it difficult to play a character that is both firm and feared, but who also has a lot of humor?
No not at all. At the beginning when I arrived, we focused on his natural authority, something that I do not have in life. But she is a hard woman. I don’t feel like that at all, the text was written like that, so I played it like that. And little by little, humor slipped into there and a certain sweetness. They have written things where it can be much softer. She is very human and maternal. It can be awkward, but that’s what makes its charm. I would meet someone like that in life, she would conspire me at a lot of moments (laughs), but I would find that she is a very touching person and with whom we want to be close.
In the series you have lost your husband, Renaud. Since then you have had two contenders. Is Marianne ready to embark on a new love story?
Yes, but it’s not an absolute quest at all times. Because she deeply loved Renaud (her ex-husband in the series, played by Pierre Deny, editor’s note) and I think she can very well conceive her life without a man and that’s also what makes her strength. But when she lives this situation with these two men, who run after her, she is also a little in her element. It is very flattered to seduce two men who have a lot of charisma. And she feels very in her place and it may trigger a desire to relive a story with a man. She had put it aside not with sadness, or with spite, just it was a choice. She said that she really liked a man in her life and that she had married him. She said to herself: “Well, that’s behind me”. Finally she gets caught up, because you can fall in love at any age.
Marianne is a grandmother, she is sixty years old and she continues to fully invest in her career. Do you see her stop being a doctor soon?
Doctors never retire and I think she will never take her (laughs). As long as this series lasts she goes to hospital every morning. For me, Marianne is associated with work and her vocation, because it is more than a profession. She will never let go.
A great career also in the theater
You already had a career in the theater before the daily newspaper, which you continue to feed in parallel. What do you bring to pass the cameras?
Already, I did not expect to be part of the series at all at all. Now playing all the time, it helps me for castings and tests, because I’m less afraid of cameras. And then, the series it helped me too for my show
since the “fans”, even if I don’t like to say that, talk about it and come and it’s magic.
Do you have a scene that has particularly marked you?
“Pretend to be me”,From Luce Mouchel, at the Théâtre du Chariot in Paris on Mondays and Tuesdays in September 2025.
