He is one of the first to have agreed to come back, and did not hesitate for a second: this Monday, January 8, 2024, Laurent Kérusoré will be in the casting of the new season of More beautiful lifebroadcast on TF1 at 1:40 p.m., just after the daily news Marie-Sophie Lacarrau. For those who work, two possibilities will be available to them: replay on TF1 Plus, the group’s new free platform, and rebroadcast every day of the week on TFX at the series’ historic schedule, at 8:20 p.m. A rebroadcast of the episode the day before will also be offered on TFX at 7:50 p.m., just before today’s episode. In the casting, many new recruits, including Anthony Joubert, Moon Daily and Diane Dassignywhich compensate the absence of around thirty cult actorswho have either not been recalled, or who have not been renewed.
So, Laurent Kérusoré has the pleasure of working again with Anne DécisCécilia Hornus, Lola Marois-Bigard, Marie Réache, Jérôme Bertin, Stéphane Henon, Léa François, Roxane Turmel, Tim Rousseau, Joakim Latzko, Marie Hennerez, Elisabeth Commelin, Sylvie Flepp, Elodie Varlet, Emanuele Giorgi, David Baiot and Ella Philippe and Val Duclaux. But in an interview he gave this Monday, December 25, 2023 to Pure Mediathe historic actor of the soap opera, who arrived in Plus belle la vie on March 1, 2005, reveals behind the scenes of this return in which he no longer believed, preferring to mourn the loss of a series that he carried for 17 years.
“I was touched by the end of the series, it’s true. Besides, all the images that circulated in the press, that’s me crying during the last clap. Obviously during the last two months of filming, when you say goodbye to all your comrades, it’s hard. So yes, the shutdown affected me but I wasn’t expecting anything. Between my last day of filming and the broadcast of the final episode on France 3, a few weeks passed. Thanks to my survival instinct, I managed to turn the page and move on. I spent a year doing nothing after working non-stop for 18 years, it feels good. I found Laurent, it was really nice” confided the man who today says he “doesn’t give a damn” that the series was relaunched by TF1, and not by the public service, to which he owes everything.
“The kindness of TF1 amazed me”
“I’m an actor, the broadcaster, I don’t give a damn. For me, the job remains the same. It changes because we are TF1 but above all because the channel has, I think, been able to understand the evolution of viewers’ habits. And I can only trust them. I trust the people in their office at TF1 who are experts on these issues. My job is to know my lines, arrive on time and do my job. The rest is their business. The kindness of TF1 and its teams is astonishing to me. It’s rewarding“ continued the actor, who will now have to do without Michel Cordes, who left us last April at the age of 74, and without Marwan Berreni, who left us last August at the age of 34; the two men, who played Roland Marci and Abdel Fedala, both ended their lives.