This Monday, January 31, 2022 marks the return of the series I promise you on TF1. Season 2 of this family drama will, once again, touch your heart.
Season 1 of I promise you, on TF1, put you down? Wait to see season 2 which lands on TF1 this Monday, January 31, 2022 at 9:05 p.m. Paul, Florence and their three children will still make you cry your heart out, we assure you. Once again, we’re going to find Marilou Berry, Guillaume Labbé, Narcisse Mame again taking on their roles with a sensitivity that we thought we’d already reached a maximum in season 1. We’re also counting on the presence of actress Camille Lou who embodies the mother of the family, Florence. We just talked with the actress about the emotional power of this series adapted from the American program This is us, and more precisely on this season 2 which required a particular emotional investment. “Season 2 revolves around Paul’s death so morally it was pretty tough to play”, she confided to aufeminin.
How and why I promise you, on TF1, affects us so much? We looked into the matter. I promise, it will be a spoiler-free focus of this highly anticipated season 2!
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The themes of “I promise you” are universal
Series I promise you moves away from what we are used to seeing on the television landscape. If the polar way Alice Nevers Where Alex Hugo make the heyday of French television, I promise you stands out and establishes itself as a family drama that evokes subjects concerning for viewers.ice.s. Camille Lou also agrees with us on this point. “Everyone can be touched by the themes of the series”, she explained to us. “Me, for example, I am very empathetic. I did not experience what Florence experienced (his character in the series, editor’s note). We don’t have an adoption in my family, of course, but we can’t not be affected. It’s impossible. We can find ourselves in each bridle of characters as it is universal. It’s very strong.”
The actors are 100% invested in their roles
And if the themes are so concerning it is thanks to a very successful casting and, above all, invested in each of the roles drawn up in the narrative framework. Camille Lou took on the role of Florence with great compassion for this character, evoking Meisner’s famous technique. “I put myself in people’s shoes. I imagine myself living this situation”, she told us. “It’s making the imagination work with people we know, things we experience ourselves. I try to cling to what I live and what I have been able to live. You have to put a little bit of yourself into it, you have no choice”, added Camille Lou before specifying: “there are scenes that are so powerful that sometimes I could hardly stop crying, because I had connected to personal things.”
The series “I promise you” makes us nostalgic
Then there is this vintage atmosphere in I promise you. This adaptation manages to touch the viewer by anchoring the story in French culture. From his objects, his references to his music which rocked the childhood of many of us, I promise you calls for nostalgia. “The series was very well adapted to the French landscape. There is this nostalgia that sets in and speaks to everyone, whether it is the music or the objects”, develops Camille Lou. Indeed, there is just to review the credits of the series, on the tube of Johnny Hallyday, to be immersed in the past.
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