“It’s not my choice to always play cops and policewomen”

Starring in the new France 2 series, “L’Eclipse”, broadcast from Wednesday September 4, Claire Keim leads the investigation on the Aubrac high plateau.

She is a regular on the small screen and often plays the role of a policewoman or a gendarme. To the question: “Could you be a criminal?“, the discreet and sunny actress Claire Keim responds quite frankly: “I would like to let go of the navy blue suit that I love a little bit.“. Already available for streaming on the France Télévisions platform and from Wednesday September 4 on France 2, Claire Keim will once again play a member of the police force, Johanna Croiset, a police officer and mother in the new, unpublished series The Eclipse.

The plot takes place on the high plateau of Aubrac and begins on the evening of an eclipse. It’s the village festival in Bozouls and the young people go off to party. And then there’s this accident. Luca, the son of the policewoman Manue Vitali played by Anne Charrier, disturbed by anonymous text messages about his girlfriend Nour, is drunk with grief. Lost, he took his mother’s service weapon. A shot accidentally goes off and it’s Nour who is injured while she is quite far from the group. A scream arises and the group of friends discover the young girl. They try to help her. No network, everyone moves away to find help and when the police arrive, Nour has disappeared.

This series is both a thriller and a social drama. There are many stories in the story and it addresses many themes such as the peasant world, family secrets, the unspoken things of adolescents, friendship. A mixture that seduced Claire Keim, even if, as she explains, it is not she who makes the choice to always go towards roles of gendarme and policewoman. There is a demand from the public, “This is what I am offered” she said. “My thing is going to be: how am I going to do with this imposed figure to bring as much humanity as possible to the character?“. “What is interesting, she continues, is that I was leaving the role of a Parisian cop with a very particular narration. And there, I arrive on a provincial gendarme, on the Aubrac plateau and obviously, it is a character who is lit completely differently“.

“I’m happy, but it’s not my choice. I want people to stop saying: she loves the roles of policeman and cop… No!” she admits. Noting that viewers are passionate about investigations, in her soft voice, she temporizes : “What is true is that I try to be happy where I am. I try to find my happiness. And in fact, I realize that even when I don’t make films with police officers, there is still a kind of investigation.“.