HPI come back. The TF1 phenomenon series with Audrey Fleurot in the role of a whimsical cleaning lady whose high intellectual faculties are very useful to the police will be back on TF1 on May 12. The episodes are already available on the Salto platform. Audrey Fleurot still shines there with a thousand lights.
Alice Chegaray Breugnot is the author of the series. She was the first surprise of her incredible audience success last year, averaging eight million viewers for each episode. Alice Chegary-Breugnot: “It’s very difficult to explain a success, of course, but we hadn’t anticipated it at all, she explains. I think that the mixture of genres partly explains the success of this character who, at the start, is a cleaning lady, goes from odd jobs to odd jobs who are fired all the time and who finally finds her place in society. That too tells something, her side so uninhibited that makes you want to be her at times, to be able to say shit to your banker. And that is very enjoyable and very liberating. Obviously, afterwards, there is the encounter between this role and Audrey.” In HPI, Audrey Fleurot does tons of it on screen but also on set…
“So Audrey, she does a lot of improvisation. There are a lot of things that she adds in the background and which are little nuggets like that that we manage to nab. She also puts a lot of childhood into the personage.”
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At the beginning, HPIit was to be for TF1 a Thursday thriller like the others… “Normally, a thriller is a thriller and not a, emphasizes Alice Chegaray Breugnot. The series was sold on it on a Thursday evening thriller on TF1. We had to push the walls a little bit by little to impose this police comedy which was not done at all.
For the new season, we dig into the personalities… And Morgane suddenly finds herself in a precarious position again. “So luckily we started season two before the season one ratings, continues Alice Chegaray Breugnot. It’s true that if you think about it after that, it becomes really sclerosing. But as Morgane is homeless in this season with her children, she will squat with some, with others before being able to find a solution. So indeed, we’re going to explore the intimate side of our secondary characters and that’s what’s great about season two too, it’s that we laid down our fundamentals in season. A season two, we can go explore, go a little further around.” HPI season 2 still as funny, masterfully led by Audrey Fleurot, available now on Salto.