This is the big return of the “HPI” series on the small screen. Since Thursday May 11, 2023, viewers have once again been following the adventures of Morgane Alvaro played by actress Audrey Fleurot… And the least we can say is that many of them did not miss the start of season three! With 8.379 million viewers for the first episode… Suffice to say that the start was a real success! A French phenomenon which interests across the Atlantic… And if our American friends had already expressed the desire to adapt this series already broadcast in a hundred countries, the good audiences of the last episode of the television series finally finished them off. convince.
This Tuesday, May 16, our American colleagues from TVLine announced that the pilot had been ordered for the 2023-2024 season. Good news which is not really good news for the actress Audrey Fleurot who embodies the main character of this fiction! And for good reason, the actress with the fiery hair had already expressed her lack of enthusiasm about the possibility of an American adaptation a few weeks ago, while she was on the promotional tour for season three of “ HPI”.
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“Americans have a tendency to buy up concepts and break away from them”
At the time, the latter justified her apprehensions by indicating that she would have greatly preferred that the Americans subtitle the already existing French version: “I wish they’d taken the original series and subtitled it. I’m curious about the result because HPI is very French, and Americans tend to buy concepts and break away from them. “, she said.
“Being a fan of English humor, I think that the ones who could really make it something mind-blowing are the British”, she added.
For his part, Mehdi Nebbou, Audrey Fleurot’s partner in the series, was less reluctant, even explaining that he hoped to see his role given to a famous American actor: “ I would have loved to see Steve Carell, who inspired me to play Karadec,” he said.
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