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“We feel that the atmosphere is tense immediately”, remembers the director of the international co-production adapted from the work of Emile Zola, which begins Wednesday, October 27 on France 2. A sequence that has marked those who took part in it… Extract from the magazine “8:30 pm on Saturday” broadcast on October 23, 2021, just after the newspaper of France 2.
The director of the France 2 event series Germinal, based on the novel by Emile Zola, organizes in 2018 the casting of the scene of the lynching of the grocer Maigrat. Actresses must put themselves in the shoes of women raped by the shopkeeper. David Hourrègue gives the first instructions and the atmosphere changes immediately …
“We immediately felt that the atmosphere was very special, he recalls for the magazine ‘8:30 p.m. on Saturday’ (replay). There is in particular a young woman participating in the casting to whom I explain the situation. She said to me: ‘I connect to my Maigrat’… before collapsing and having an absolutely terrible anger. Rare are those who left the cast without being very tested. “
“I put all the rage maybe buried in us“
“There are three peacekeepers hidden among you to prevent any form of overflow. The idea being of course that there is energy. Obviously, this is an expiatory sequence but it must be extremely controlled to that it works “, says the director to the actresses. He remembers : “We feel that the atmosphere is tense immediately. The climate becomes completely electric.” And thethe scene really shook up the actor playing the grocer …
“They make me think when I get the final blow, says Simon Ferrante. We feel that they are doing themselves justice. The more they let go, the more they tended to want to hit almost for real. “ The actress Anne Conti testifies: “I put all the rage that may have been buried in us. Maybe we say to ourselves that we embody all the rage of all the women, mothers, daughters, sisters who have suffered, in a gesture that means: Enough! Stop, what! Stop! “
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