Before incarnating Michaël in I promise you, the French version of the American series This is Us, broadcast from February 1 on TF1, Guillaume Labbé had several lives. The 38-year-old actor appeared in Trauma, where he plays the role of an amnesiac policeman or in Heart plan, streamed on Netflix. But Guillaume Labbé has more than one line to his credit. The actor, before taking over the production studios, trod the green rectangles of rugby stadiums. A sport that allowed her to embark on a career as a model, despite himself by posing for the calendar of the Gods of the stadium. "I played rugby for a long time, including on the New York team. In Paris, I was part of the Stade Français hope team, at the time of Max Guazzini. I posed for one of the first editions of the calendar. I was 19, I had never done modeling and found myself posing naked. But it was great fun to do"he confided in an interview with TV-Leisure in November 2019.
A sensitive and tailor-made role
In I promise you, Guillaume Labbé gets an almost tailor-made role. Michaël, Marilou Berry's on-screen brother, is a professional football player. Narcisse Mame completes the siblings. The young actor had already rubbed shoulders with Guillaume Labbé in the series Trauma. "I love finding the connections I can have with my characters. It allows me to live lives that I wouldn't have, to feel things that I don't feel. Apart from psychopaths, completely bad people are very rare. There are always reasons for their behavior. I like to find in these characters their humanity, their fragility"he had also declared in the same interview.
Fragility, there may be some in I promise you. If certain plots have been modified compared to the American version, it is to be bet that the French production will also address certain sensitive subjects. Handkerchiefs are to be expected.
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