There are also forces of nature in the series In Therapy. In the second season, Jacques Weber plays a business manager who has come to buy the services of the psychoanalyst Philippe Dayan for the needs of his company, and he ends up revealing his life brick by brick to Doctor Dayan.
In the second season of In Therapy, Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano have brought together actors and directors who have often come from arthouse cinema. Suzanne Lindon turns under the gaze of Arnaud Desplechin. And Nakache and Toledano also think of Jacques Weber:
“All of a sudden, they called me, they told me Nakache and Toledano want to see you, we want to see you for ‘In Therapy 2’. They came to see me very kindly at my house. spoke and gave me the script. I found this writing wonderful, extremely precise, tenuous, informed: we knew what we were talking about.”
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“And they tell me: all that remains is to convince Emmanuelle Bercot, whom we have chosen as director,” adds Jacques Weber. The preparation with the director Emmanuelle Bercot, before shooting, consists of readings at the table. Jacques Weber explains:
“What was important was that she had noticed that I had a way of either pushing myself forward, bracing myself, or pulling myself back, or crossing my legs, or scratching my hands, to shake my wedding ring. All that, she spotted it. She used it. She asked me to return it, but without pressing, lightly, by suggestion, by impressionist touches.”
Then it was a grueling shoot for the actor. “Troublesome for a very simple, purely technical reason, which is that we were doing about an episode in a day and a half. So you had a considerable text, a concentration that this text required since you know all the same that the most difficult, the most beautiful also without a doubt, is the inner journey. It is more difficult to travel in oneself than to travel in Amazonia”, emphasizes Jacques Weber.
“And it is undoubtedly the fact of this success that ‘In Therapy 1’ has known: it is to bet on the beauty and the extraordinary diversity of the inner journey. But it is true that that requires a lot, a lot, a lot of concentration, and that I had the completely strange feeling of playing from noon to 8 p.m. without stopping.”