Balthazar season 4, on TF1, it’s this Thursday, March 10, 2022, at 9:10 p.m. Constance Labbé, new heroine alongside Tomer Sisley, is expected at the turn.
It’s the new face of Balthazar. While season 4 of the TF1 series will be broadcast from Thursday March 10, 2022, at 9:10 p.m., aufeminin spoke with Constance Labbé. The actress, whom we have already seen in the film Edmundamong other things, is tackling a major challenge: taking over after the departure of the star actress of Balthazar, Helene de Fourgerolles.
How do you apprehend arriving in a series that is already well established in the television landscape? How can you assert yourself when your character is the only new one in the well-known cast of Balthazar ? Constance Labbé agreed to answer our questions on the subject: from her character, to the place of women in our society, but also hers as an actress and as a woman who evolved in a very masculine environment. What is certain is that his arrival in Balthazar could well bring a breath of fresh air to the series.
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As the new flagship main character, how did you approach your arrival?
I was lucky that it happened quite quickly after the casting. So I didn’t really measure the extent and the challenges that this represented for production and for TF1. It was during the filming that I discovered that there was pressure. But at the beginning, I told myself that I was going to treat the character and work it as well as possible.
How were you received by Tomer Sisley and the other actors in the series?
Everyone was really nice. I knew that everyone liked Hélène de Fourgerolles (Captain Bach, in previous seasons of Balthazar, editor’s note), but no one made me feel it. They welcomed me with great kindness and kindness. I didn’t feel there was a problem and my goal was not to force my place. All my relationships happened gradually and I really got along with Yannig Samot (who plays Jérôme, editor’s note). They were all smart enough not to charge me for it.
I didn’t want to make a fuss of it
You are indeed taking over the torch after Hélène de Fougerolles, how did you work on your role? Does one try hard not to offer a carbon copy of his role to the spectator?
The question didn’t even arise because the role is completely different. The relationships between the characters too. The only small place where we had to work on this was with Yannig. Ultimately, with Tomer, the question did not arise. The relationship is different between the two characters. With Yannig, on the other hand, we really asked ourselves the question of making a difference with the character of Hélène de Fougerolles because these two characters are investigating together. In the personalities of the characters between Camille and Captain Bach, there is nothing to see. Even in life, I am different from Hélène de Fougerolles, so everything happened naturally.
How would you describe your character, Camille?
She is very independent and very solitary. She prides herself on not needing anyone. We will discover that she has big flaws and that she has a somewhat complicated story, but that she does everything to hide it and not get attached to people. She is very sporty and, above all, she has always evolved in a man’s environment. However, she managed to find a place for herself. She is not afraid of others. I am lucky to have a cousin who is a steward and who told me about what it was like to be a woman at the head of a team. It’s always interesting to talk about this relationship between women and men, without falling into clichés. It was the idea of the screenwriters in writing Camille: to make her a woman in a man’s environment, but not to make her a stake in the plot. This is the kind of project that interests me. I think it’s very smart not to have made a spell out of it, as they didn’t make an issue of me being bisexual in the series. This is where it is deeply feminist. I didn’t want to mess it up.
It’s always interesting to talk about this relationship between women and men, without falling into clichés.
What would be your points in common with Camille?
Already, I have also always evolved in a middle of men. I have three older brothers and spent more time with boys growing up than girls. Then there is this autonomy that she has that I think I have. I am also sporty and a bit stubborn, in control. I don’t like it when it resists either. Then, she has a lot of my humor.
As a woman, have you also had to impose yourself in the world of theatre, cinema and television?
I think that inevitably, by the simple fact that I am a woman, I had to face it… It is intrinsic. Afterwards, I must admit that I may be lucky to have the appropriate weapons. Of course, there are times when I realize that I am less considered and thought that I am less able to do certain things because I am a woman. But I would say that my feminist side is in the fact that I don’t stop there.
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