There are aperitifs that stretch over weeks, even months. The one we took with Fanny Sidney started in the fall, when the temperature was just starting to drop and the actress-director was in the middle of editing/re-editing her series. Mobile Squad. It ended in May by telephone, when the posting of the seven episodes on Arte.tvpostponed several times.
We meet her in the middle of the afternoon in an improbable place, an empty kebab between Gare du Nord and Gare de l’Est, in Paris, not far from the room where her fitter cuts and sews while she slips away the time a few photos and several black teas. The Camille Valentini of Ten percent unwittingly cultivates a youthful look in jeans-sneakers, a ponytail and a bare face. Yet she is 35 years old, two little girls, a flawless career – Cours Florent, La Fémis, directing section –, bottles and some solid convictions about her profession.
If his face has become familiar since the success of the series created by Fanny Herrero, few viewers knew his directing work until the success of Young and Golrithe series by Agnès Hurstel (broadcast in the fall and still visible on OCS) of which she directed the eight episodes. “As I get older, I see a lot of friends going through “Un apéritif avec”…, she said, her eyes sparkling behind her funny glasses. I was almost like “when is my turn?” »
Mobile Squad, her first solo project, was born from the desire to write for Marie Lelong and Louise Massin, two comedy friends met during their formative years, lost sight of and then rediscovered through the detours of their respective careers. In 2015, the three young women saw their paths cross again on the web series Louloua goofy, feminist farce about motherhood (still visible on Arte.tv), of which Fanny Sidney directed several episodes. “I took a long time to accept that comedy was a noble genre. In France, if you don’t do contemplative work, you’re worth nothing. »
During an aperitif “well, well watered” the desire for a common project is reborn. Fanny Sidney then knits a story that would have as a backdrop these landscapes of Auvergne where she spent her holidays as a child. She imagines a professional duo made up of different characters and a context that forces them to collaborate. “I wanted to see two women uncomfortable in their uniforms, one because it’s too big, the other because it’s too small. I came across this initiative which consists of having gendarmes circulate in motorhomes in the countryside and I said to myself: this is the story. »
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