“I would love to act in an action movie”

Every day, a personality invites itself into the world of Élodie Suigo. Thursday June 27, 2024: The actress, Louise Bourgoin. Wednesday July 10, she will be appearing in the film “Le Médium” by Emmanuel Laskar.

The public discovered Louise Bourgoin as Miss Météo in “Le Grand Journal” by Michel Denisot on Canal+ in 2006. The vector of appeasement remains her profession as an actress. Above all, it is her main means of realizing herself as a woman. Each role allows him to live other lives, to change his personality. This is actually what happened with the series. Hippocrate and her role as Chloe or with her first role as a slightly perverse cagole in The Girl from Monaco by Anne Fontaine in 2008 and that of the insolent heroine of the Belle Époque in The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec by Luc Besson two years later.

On Wednesday, July 10, Louise Bourgoin will be on the bill for the film The Medium by Emmanuel Laskar. She plays Alicia, a woman disturbed by the death of her husband and by a deep feeling of feeling his presence. She will meet Michael, himself shaken by the death of his mother and who will decide to take over from her by assuming this gift that she passed on to him in order to conquer her.

franceinfo: The Medium is a parable about death by erasing the serious spirit, we laugh at the disaster. Is that what you liked about the script?

Louise Bourgoin: What immediately attracted me when reading the script were several scenes that I really wanted to play. Particularly those of possession, where this man who inherited his mother’s talents as a medium meets my character who has just lost his husband and will accept that his ghost settles in him to speak to me. And since he’s in love with me at the same time, it’s a kind of mix between the film Ghost And In the Mood for Love, that is to say a somewhat thwarted love. It’s a dialogue, a little biased by the ghosts, the people who haunt us. I found it to be a beautiful parable of what it’s also like to start a new love story because there are always the ghosts of our exes haunting us.

He lost his mother, she is still there, he feels her presence. You, it is your husband. I have the impression that there is a resonance box in relation to your life. You lost your father very young from a heart attack at 62 years old. We also feel through this film to what extent the people who have disappeared continue to be part of us. Did that affect you?

Of course.

“What had a big impact on me when my father died was that I had done a lot of things to please him, to please him and that without that outlook, I had to reinvent my life, do the things for myself.”

Louise Bourgoin

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I remember that I was so conditioned by my father’s gaze that I didn’t necessarily want to do it for myself, I was a little disoriented. And that’s the case with the character in the film. Alicia says, at one point, that she herself may be dead, that only he sees her because he’s a medium. She feels disconnected from life, from the world and that’s something that we have to learn to find again.

Does the fragility of existence that appears at the time of mourning require us to change our outlook on life?

Fact. I don’t think that obliges us. The fact is that whatever happens, we can only have a new perspective. This state of vulnerability can last a year, two years, a fairly long period, but we can also feel it when we have just had a child, for many months, we are not yet quite ourselves, we have to meet again. I find it to be a somewhat analogous state.

We feel that the woman you have become is blossoming more and more. I had the impression that something clicked with Hippocrate and Chloe, that something happened with this role.

Yes, that’s true, because it was the first time I played in a series. Developing a character for years and then being able to make her play a lot of things allowed me to explore all the possibilities with Chloé Antovska. It’s something that fulfills you as an actor, because very often, you arrive for a second role, a third role and you come, you leave. You didn’t have time to develop everything, you didn’t really understand your character, and here, on the contrary, with a series, you know your character inside out and so you can refine it, dig deeper. It was really lucky. And it’s also a series that has been very successful. Often, in the street, people talk to me about the series.

When Emmanuel Laskar talks about this film, The Medium, he explains that he was inspired by his own story. That as a child, he was rejected a lot by others because he loved reading and the theater. What has theater brought you? Did it help you find yourself?

Theater was a real revelation for me, because I felt a little apart and too sensitive compared to others. In fourth grade, I thought I had a problem when I was more emotional than others when hearing poetry, etc. Often people made fun of me, it was a reason for mockery.

“In the theater, I understood that my sensitivity was an asset. Suddenly, it became a quality.”

Louise Bourgoin

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That’s what completely changed my view of myself. Unfortunately, in sixth grade, my mother wanted me to stop taking classes, it was a great frustration, but ultimately, it caught up with me later.

You say that you exude a certain violence and that this has not yet been exploited in cinema. What do you mean ?

Ah yes, I noticed this when I don’t smile. Often, I have been employed in the roles of a mother who assumes responsibility, who has her head on her shoulders. I was used for roles of a rather friendly, extroverted and cheerful girl. And I find that I have a slightly more violent side that hasn’t been exploited yet, and I would love to act in an action film.

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