As the seventh and final season of “Tandem” comes to an end on Tuesday on France 3, Astrid Veillon talks to our microphone about the new challenge she is taking up: going behind the camera to make a TV movie for the first time. .
After seven seasons and 84 episodes, Tandem, the successful detective series led by Astrid Veillon and Stéphane Blancafort, will end on Tuesday June 13 on France 3 with the broadcast of a final not to be missed, which will be marked in particular by a wedding and reunion.
However, if this final episode is a nice conclusion that should delight fans of the series, Tandem has not quite breathed its last since the channel and the production are currently preparing a special 90-minute TV movie which will be broadcast in the coming months and which could well take the form of an ultimate gift for viewers. And a real grand finale.
Astrid Veillon becomes director
This unitary event of Tandem, which will return in particular to the meeting between Léa and Paul, with flashbacks in support, will moreover be special in more ways than one since it will be directed by Astrid Veillon in person, who will thus pass behind the camera for the first time in his career. A new challenge that she recently told us about in an interview.
“It’s a challenge, that’s for sure, but I love challenges, I think life is made for that. Directing is something I’ve wanted to do for a very long time. I do the photo, I write, when I was little and we did shows, I was the one who did the staging (laughs). So it’s a bit of a loop that comes full circle in a way”admits the interpreter of Léa, who was therefore thinking for a little while already to go behind the camera.
“But on Tandem it was never possible for me to direct before because we were shooting on two sets, and when I was not on one set I was on the other. And when the rumor of this special Tandem TV movie is born, our sound engineer, Jean-Paul, came to see me one day in the canteen and said “We agree that if we make a 90-minute TV movie, it’s you who will direct it I looked at him and said, “Excuse me?” (laughs). According to him, I had everything to make this TV movie, and it hit home.”.
“There was no double set, I knew the series, the actors, the sets. It was a favorable playground for my debut behind the camera”, continues Astrid Veillon, who quickly had the approval of the chain and the production to embark on this new adventure. And say goodbye to Léa and Tandem in the most beautiful way?
“I’m leaving for this project with a lot of excitement, a lot of desire, and a lot of apprehension too. The fear of not being up to it and of disappointing”told us the actress a few days before starting the production of this TV movie. “It’s a mixture of emotions that is both exhilarating and intimidating. But I throw myself into this adventure head on, like everything I do. I can’t do halfway. I’m at the heart of creation and that’s what I like”.