The red tornado is back! Audrey Fleurot is resuming her role as a wacky investigator tonight in HPI on TF1. The first season had exploded the audience: 11.5 million fans on average for each episode, replay included. One in two viewers watched TF1. 52% of women responsible for purchases are under 50, the favorite target of advertisers, the one that sets the price of advertising spots. It was unheard of since 2005!
HPI is the third most followed French series in history after Dolmen and the count of Monte Cristo. Same Captain Marleau is beaten to the hilt. The 8 episodes are in the Top 20 of the best audiences of 2021. Figures that give additional pressure to actress Audrey Fleurot: “This success has overtaken us, we couldn’t have expected such a success. I put a lot of myself into the character, I improvise a lot, so if it hadn’t worked, it would have been a lot more painful than for any other series. I would have experienced that as a form of disenchantment. So it’s reassuring, flattering, but it’s a bit of a poisoned gift because it puts a lot of pressure for season 2. I have a responsibility on my shoulders that is not easy.”
In HPIAudrey Fleurot embodies Morgane Alvaro, high intellectual potential, with a brain in full effervescence, an incredible memory, associations of ideas that no one makes, but also without filter, with an outspokenness that borders on vulgarity.
“It was a bold character proposal and pretty strong comedy, I wanted a lot of self-mockery”
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Known for her roles in A French village, gears, The charity bazaar Where KaamelottAudrey Fleurot changed category thanks to HPI. She has become a star, a phenomenon, the most bankable from TV. The proposals have been pouring in for a year: “HPI takes me a lot of time but it’s important to do other things on the side. That said, Morgane is such a colorful character, who gives me such freedom, that it’s not easy to find such exciting projects. I don’t want to let go of it yet, so there will be a season 3, but I’m afraid of doing the season too much. I want to embody it as long as we manage to up the sliders every time and as long as I’m having fun.”