As filming for “Bardot” has just wrapped, France 2 has unveiled a first photo of Julia de Nunez as Brigitte Bardot, as well as the full cast of the biopic series, which notably includes stars from ” It all starts here.”
Five-star casting for Bardot, the biopic mini-series on Brigitte Bardot which will soon arrive on France 2.
Written and directed by Danièle Thompson and her son Christopher Thompson, who had already collaborated on the films Orchestra seats, The Code has changed, or People kissing, this fiction in six 52-minute episodes shot in Paris, in Paris region and Saint-Tropez, will retrace the extraordinary destiny of the star of Contempt and Une Parisienne, French icon and key figure in the 7th Art, from his very first casting at 15 to the filming of La Vérité by Clouzot, 10 after.
In a press release today announcing the end of filming for this event series, France 2 also unveiled the first photo of the revelation Julia de Nunez in the skin of Brigitte Bardot. As well as the complete list of actors who will play the role of this young actress who inherits here her first role on screen.
Alongside Julia de Nunez, stunning in Bardot on the first shot that you can discover above, viewers will be able to find Géraldine Pailhas and Hippolyte Girardot in the role of Brigitte’s parents, Anne-Marie and Louis Bardot.
Victor Belmondo (Envole-moi) will lend his features to Roger Vadim, while Yvan Attal, Anne Le Ny, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Laurent Stocker of the Comédie Française, Oscar Lesage, and Noham Edje will respectively play Raoul Levy , Olga Horstig, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Pierre Lazareff, Jacques Charrier, and Jean-Louis Trintignant.
Two of the actors of Here it all begins, Fabian Wolfrom and Mikaël Mittelstadt, will also be unfaithful to the daily soap opera of TF1 to camp the icons of French song Sacha Distel and Gilbert Bécaud.
Finally, the rest of the cast of the series includes Jules Benchetrit (Sami Frey), Laure Marsac (Christine Gouze-Renal), Giuseppe Maggio (Enzo), Valentina Romani (Peggy), Jean Franco (Alain), César Chouraqui (Christian Marquand ), Lou Gable (Mijanou Bardot), and Bernard Murat (Le Boum – Leon Mucel).
Very beautiful people for Bardot, produced by Pascal Breton, Judith Rochelois, and Ariel Zeitoun, which should not arrive on the air before 2023 on France 2 and will endeavor to tell in a few episodes “the story of a young girl who, like all the others, seeks love and success but whose dreams are shattered against the hysteria she unleashes”. And, with it, an important page in the history of French cinema.