A few days before Christmas, TF1 will offer its viewers, this Thursday, December 23 from 9:05 p.m., Sissi. Make no mistake, this is not the 1955 version, the most iconic worn by Romy Schneider. The actress had taken on the role of the young empress of Austria on three occasions, in Sissi (1955), Sissi Empress (1956) and Sissi facing her fate (1957).
But this time, it is about a series, carried out by Sven Bohse, which hit hard in Germany and which will try to do the same in the hexagon. To succeed Alain Delon’s ex, the production called on Dominique Devenport, a Swiss-American actress unknown to the general public who obtained her first major role … obtained by chance. “I was having a beer with a friend in Munich, and I was explaining to him how I felt a connection with Sissi”, she explained during an interview with Variety. “What I didn’t know was that the next day this friend was meeting the show’s casting director. He told her about me and she called me. I auditioned and I been selected. ” Her husband, Emperor Franz Joseph I, is camped by the German actor Jannik Schümann.
The successors of Romy Schneider and Karlheinz Böhm will offer a story much less smooth and more sulphurous.
On the one hand, Dominique Devenport appears as an empress, more modern and self-confident. “We wanted to show the emancipation of this woman”, she admitted when she came to Canneseries. His partner on the screen displays a portrait of Franz at the antipodes of what Sissi fans have known but closer to the emperor and the husband he was …
Moreover, the series will also put a fairly pronounced emphasis will also be placed on the sexuality of the characters. As an entry, a sequence showing Sissi in the middle of a solitary pleasure session …
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