After eight years co-hosting the show TV kids, which will have been one of the longest projects of her career, Edith Cochrane has decided to turn the page.
Posted at 9:35 a.m.
Updated at 3:33 p.m.
With a smile, she announced Thursday morning, on the Facebook page of Radio-Canada, her departure from the show. She will also be in all episodes until the end of this season in April.
The show will be renewed in the fall for a 13and season, still with André Robitaille as host. The person who will replace Mme Cochrane has not yet been found. Both the broadcaster and the producer, the house of Fair Play, wanted the announcement concerning the actress to be made before taking the next step.
“Our wish, shared by the broadcaster, is for it to be a woman”, indicates Benoit Léger, executive producer at Fair Play.
Joined Thursday noon, Edith Cochrane said “having been around with pleasure” for eight years, but that the time had come to explore new avenues.
“I want to explode a little,” she said in a telephone interview. And for that, you have to start by leaving your security, which you are comfortable in. I cause change. »
Actress with multiple roles, both on television (Slices of life, G-complex, Black sequence) than in the cinema (Aurelie Laflamme, The revision), Mme Cochrane arrived at the same time as André Robitaille at TV kids in 2014, replacing the original animators, Véronique Cloutier and Antoine Bertrand.
Initially, she says, the producers, who had noticed her when she was a guest on the show, courted her to audition to replace Véronique Cloutier. She did not see herself in this seat, but ended up accepting.
“I went to the hearing inhabited by the feeling of the impostor, she says. Anthony [Bertrand] was there and I was in Vero’s seat. I made jokes, I was spontaneous, I was myself. At one point, Antoine gave me a sign, wanting to say: “You are going to replace me.” ” What happened.
“I loved it,” she continues. I learned a lot. It is a role which is particular and which is not obvious. You have to use spontaneity. But at the same time, I had things written, prepared, I had to learn how to place them. »
After six years, she began to want to move on. “I said to myself that I would see myself elsewhere, that I would do something else and that I would like to use my potential differently. »
That said, everything is open. “Concretely, I have nothing. I’m not leaving because I have something specific. I want to be available for something else. »
Would she be tempted by the place of the court jester in Everybody talks about it ? ” Not at all. It has been mentioned. To TV kids, it’s happiness, variety. AT TLMEP, it’s a tougher set with people in the hot seat, etc. »
Two movies, one book
While co-facilitating, Edith Cochrane had the opportunity to work on other projects. She will be releasing a book in the spring and has recently starred in two films.
In the fall of 2021, she shot for 15 days in Nathalie St-Pierre’s next film entitled Thy will be done. Last spring, she was alongside Luc Guérin, Jean-Moïse Martin and Marie-Évelyne Lessard in the feature film men at night by Anh Minh Truong.
In May, she will launch with actress Isabelle Brouillette a children’s book entitled behind my chair at Editions La Bagnole. “It’s a 48-page book for which I wrote the texts. Isabelle, who is my great friend, signs the illustrations. This project kept us busy during the pandemic. »
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the team of TV kids records the last six episodes of the 2021-2022 season. In an interview, Benoit Léger indicates that one of these episodes, entitled “Les enfants de la tour”, will be devoted to the relocation of Radio-Canada from the big brown tower to its new premises built just next door, at the intersection of boulevard René-Lévesque and Papineau Avenue. Of course, there will be a “Never Seen, Never Heard” special with the shows’ outtakes.
Will we pay tribute to Edith Cochrane by the end of the season? Of course, answers the producer.
The last show of the season will be presented on Wednesday, April 13.