After the box of the American series This is Us in the United States and around the world (with already 6 seasons), TF1 threw I promise you, its French adaptation, in 2021 (renewed for a second season). On the bill, with Hugo Becker, Camille Lou and Guillaume Labbé, we find Marilou Berry. Josiane Balasko’s daughter took over the role of American Chrissy Metz, who plays Kate (Maud in her French version). It is about a young woman who has weight problems and who goes on diets.
And if Marilou Berry has agreed to blend into the character, it is to give him all the realism he could have lacked with another. To our colleagues from TV 7 days, she has indeed explained that she had at heart that the role is not treated with grossophobia, simply out of ignorance. This is how she categorically refused a request from the production.
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In the columns of Humanitythis week, the 39-year-old actress says: “In season 1, the production wanted me to be really fat, and wear prosthetics. I refused. Because if they wanted a bigger actress, they had to hire a bigger actress. Point“.
A firm choice which was also in the direction of realism, also believes the TV star. She notices that there is a significant difference in overweight between Americans and French people. “En France, we are smaller than in the United States. There are overweight people, but not in the same proportions“, she thus estimated. So that’s why she didn’t have to gain as much weight as Chrissy Metz, her American counterpart. Malin.
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