Guest of the Monte-Carlo Television Festival a few days ago, Tamara Marthe, alias Shy’m, told us about her new series, “Cannes Confidential”, soon on TF1, and returned to the sudden stop and ” complicated” from “Profiling” in 2020.
After ten seasons of tracking down the worst psychopaths, the TF1 detective series Profiling unknowingly bowed out in August 2020, at the end of the season 10 finale, which ended with the dramatic death of one of the heroes but had no not necessarily written as a conclusion to the series.
While a season 11 had been formalized by TF1, Philippe Bas, the interpreter of Commander Rocher, announced in February 2021 the stopping of Profiling. To the chagrin of the fans, who were certainly hoping for a rapprochement between the cop and Elisa Bergman, the psycho-criminologist played by Tamara Marthe, alias Shy’m, who had joined the adventure on the occasion of this tenth season, replacing Juliette Roudet (Adele).
Present at the beginning of the week at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival as part of the promotion of the Cannes Confidential series, Shy’m returned to our microphone on the cancellation of Profiling, which obviously was not easy to live with. for her, even if the actress and singer admits that the complicated broadcast of season 10, in full confinement, had not made things easier for the series.
A “frustrating” cancellation for the interpreter of Elisa
“It was a bit special because season 10 was broadcast in the middle of Covid, in a fairly sparse way. There were a few episodes, then we waited a long time before seeing the rest, it was complicated. was during confinement, it was quite weird”admits the interpreter of Elisa before explaining that she would have liked to be able to continue to explore her character more.
“When the end of the series was announced, we had finished filming a long time ago so I was no longer in this filming dynamic. But I was disappointed, of course, because I had a great bond with Philippe Bas, I loved this first experience”.
“I wanted to go back right away, because I felt that the closer I got to the last episode, the more I was able to express myself, the more I was able to let go and show things, and the more we got into Elisa’s personality. So I felt real frustration, that’s normal, but above all there was a validation of the fact that I wanted to do this job and that I was passionate about it”.
Christophe Charzat/TF1 Tamara Marthe, alias Shy’m, in season 10 of Profiling.
According to our information, even if the audiences for the series had fallen, TF1 mainly decided to stop Profiling because it was not satisfied with the texts and scenarios delivered by the screenwriters for season 11 which will therefore never have born. A data that Shy’m admits not remembering very well.
“The scripting stage is always quite complex, for any series, because everyone needs validation, there are monstrous back and forths. So inevitably it’s a bit complicated”admits the actress. “Honestly, I don’t remember what went wrong at that time. But after the Covid, all the channels were a little chilly, everyone went back to more classic formats, so it wasn’t the time to take risks”.
Shy’m soon back on TF1 alongside Lucie Lucas (Clem)
In the weeks or months to come, Shy’m will make her comeback on TF1 as an actress in Cannes Confidential, an international co-production shot last year on the Croisette and premiered last April at Canneseries.
This detective series also starring Lucie Lucas (Clem) and Jamie Bamber (Battlestar Galactica) tells the story of police lieutenants Camille Delmas and Léa Robert who, as part of some of their investigations, receive help from Harry King, an enigmatic British gentleman burglar with a mysterious past. Who could be the only one who can help Camille clear her father, who is languishing in prison for crimes he didn’t commit?
Shy’m lends her features to Léa Robert, a rather badass cop character whom she describes as very different from Elisa Bergman, whom she played in Profiling.
“They are both very different”says Tamara Marthe to our microphone. “On Profiling, Elisa was a profiler, even if she helped the police a lot. There, with Léa, we are on a character who is more on the ground, more physical, who is engaged in fights. She has a more masculine side, more spontaneous. I drew on my personality in different ways to interpret them differently. Maybe Léa is a little more complex”.
Shy’m, who says she’s already ready for a possible season 2, seems in any case delighted with this new experience as an actress, which notably allowed her to shoot in English: “The fact that it’s an international project obviously appealed to me. Filming in English can be as repulsive as it is attractive, but with my crazy character who loves challenges, it was quite attractive. And I had the chance to find myself in an incredible team”.
See you soon on TF1 to discover Shy’m and Lucie Lucas in Cannes Confidential.