This Thursday, June 9, 2022, TF1 is broadcasting a new episode of season 2 of HPI, the phenomenal series which achieves audience records every week. This success, detective fiction owes it to its unique scenario but also to its actors, namely Audrey Fleurot, Mehdi Nebbou and Bruno Sanches among others. The latter was chosen to play the role of the sympathetic policeman, good friend of the character Morgane. In the past, Bruno Sanches was already very popular in the eyes of the general public by forming the duo Catherine and Liliane on Canal+ with Alex Lutz.
The Franco-Portuguese actor has always had a strong taste for comedy and so it was only natural that he took Florent lessons as a teenager. But while he was just discovering his passion, Bruno Sanches was the victim of a serious accident. “In second year at Florent, he falls, breaks his neck during an acrobatic stunt. Spinal cord partially severed, more sensation below the neck“, teaches us The Parisian who devotes a portrait to him.
The actor is bedridden for several months
Bruno Sanches then narrowly misses finding himself a quadriplegic for life but a “1 p.m. operation saves him. Then for a second“. A landmark episode that forever changed his outlook on life.”I started to believe in positive thoughts thanks to a doctor who told me: there is a 70% chance that the operation won’t work again, but 30% depends on your mental strength. I clung to the idea that with the will everything is possible. When you’re bedridden for three or four months, you have time to think, to question yourself. This accident was a turning point. Afterwards, you learn to relativize“, he confided to our colleagues.
Since then, Bruno Sanches has become a follower of meditation. A practice that he continued even when his daily life was once again turned upside down by becoming a dad. “With two children aged 8 and 5, it’s not easy“, he admits with amusement. More able to appreciate his luck, the actor continues to struggle with his emotions, like everyone else. “I don’t become a Buddha: I have anxieties, I can be angry. But I no longer have the same relationship to life. Before the accident, I felt strong like a 20-year-old man. And there, life tells you if I want, I’ll take you. It’s lucky to be alive“, he pointed out.