The announcement had the effect of a bomb in October 2021. After three years of good and loyal service, Naima Rodric, interpreter of the character Lucille Salama, had ended his collaboration with the soap opera of France 2 such a big sun. A decision that seemed to have been taken in haste, especially since the next filming of the series was scheduled for the following week in his presence. Three months later, the actress finally delivers on the reasons for this express departure.
“Contrary to what has been said, I did not slam the door, shade Naïma Rodric with TV Star. I left the series by artistic choice. We had been talking about it for two months with the production and the authors.“It was a feature film proposal that precipitated this departure, as explained by the pretty brunette, who”just signed season 4“: “I had been approached by Olivier Marchal to play in Overdose, his next film produced by Gaumont and Amazon. It was an opportunity I couldn’t see myself missing.“
No water in the gas between Naïma Rodric and the production ofsuch a big sun, but only a matter of timing. “I even went there with great pleasure and then this project happened. We tried to find a solution with the authors and the production ofsuch a big sun for Lucille to go on an internship, for example, while I can shoot this film. In vain. And it’s a shame because I should have been released for just seven days, regrets the companion of Alexandre Varga, a successful actor seen in several series. The plot had already been rewritten, and the writers could not release a third version with another character from the series. We hit a dead end, so I made the decision to leave.“
This brutal decision to leave such a big sun was not the easiest to take for the young woman. “It broke my heart because I am very attached to my partners who have, for the most part, become friends“, she confides. However, this is a considered decision, made for the good of her career. “But, at some point, you have to know how to take risks and not lock yourself into a single character. All the interest of our job is to be able to move towards different roles“, she believes. So far from the young Lucille Salama, Naïma Rodric will interpret Vanessa, “a strong head, crazy“… and “wife of a drug cartel boss“, just that !