“I chose to be an artist so as not to confront myself completely with the reality of our society”

Samuel Le Bihan played for the first time Alex Hugo nine years ago in what was to be a unitary TV movie for France 2: the adaptation of the American novel Death and the Good Life by Richard Hugo. The story of a city policeman who seeks appeasement in the rural police of the Hautes-Alpes. Given the audience success, the TV movie turned into a series with, depending on the season, two to four new episodes per year.

The series has meanwhile moved from France 2 to France 3 without losing its five to six million regular viewers. Samuel Le Bihan who recognizes himself in the character of Alex Hugo tries to explain his success by the character of the omnipresent mountain in the series. If Lionel Astier has now left the series, just like Marilyne Canto who played Commissioner Derval, Samuel Le Bihan explains that we will not replace them. The next episodes will welcome guests who will try to shake up the field policeman, starting with Anne Charrier in the next new episode. Samuel Le Bihan also confided in developing another series in which he would play an atypical character:“I chose to be an artist so as not to confront myself completely with the reality of our society and he is a character who embodies that”.