Top audience last week with 4.4 million viewers for the launch of the mini series Germinal, France 2 intends to reproduce the feat on November 3 with new episodes. We find in particular the actor Louis Peres, young rising star of show business.
In the pages of the newspaper The Parisian, we discover the backstage of the cast of the 25-year-old actor who plays the character of Etienne Lantier in Germinal. “I knew that all of Paris, all my friends were casting. I went there telling myself anyway, it won’t be you“, remembers Louis Peres. But the young man was wrong and did not know it yet …”He arrived at 9:30 am, he couldn’t keep still. I asked him if he wanted a rehearsal, he said no, I’m ready. He launched, it was completely insane. He asked me if I wanted another take, I said no, he said OK, hi and he left. I turned to my colleagues and said: This kid, I absolutely want him“, remembers David Hourrègue, the director of the series.
Overjoyed to have landed the role, Louis Peres worked hard. “I am eternally anxious about work. I always work everything with coaches, I repeat every comma, every line. Three weeks before the shoot, I know the whole script like a play“, he said. It must be said that the actor, already seen in How I became a superhero on Netflix, has great ambitions and is clearly eyeing the United States, where the French have been popular for a few years now … “I have a very assumed dream of going to the United States, to work with the Americans“, he said. It’s all the harm we wish him!