The Christmas TV movie season is officially underway! This Monday evening, TF1 broadcasts Superdad, a fiction full of good feelings but nevertheless entertaining with a cast that we would never have dared to imagine… In Superdad, Jenifer, SVT teacher, indeed falls under the spell of a student’s parent played by Michaël Youn during a class trip to the mountains. Interview.
What appealed to you about the scenario of Superdad ?
The originality and lightness of the scenario, I had a great time reading it and I immediately wanted to give in to a new role, that of Marina, a nice teacher who loves her students and who goes to snow class with his class. I really had fun living this new experience, between two concerts!
We haven’t seen you on screen since 2019 and your role in Time is murderous, happy to pursue your career as an actress?
Of course ! Otherwise I wouldn’t have done it. I am lucky to have the choice to continue to have fun, to learn through these human adventures.
Have you ever imagined yourself starring in a Christmas movie?
I admit that it was part of my childhood dreams. I always loved the atmosphere at home around the Christmas programs, which allowed us to get together as a family
Do you like Christmas movies?
Yes, generally speaking they always end well and can make us smile and move us. Especially at this time of year, nostalgic for some, and at this complicated moment that we are all experiencing in the face of such a brutal world.
Do you recognize yourself in the character of Marina?
Yes because it is rather natural, dynamic and spontaneous.
What are your similarities and differences with her?
Listening to others is one of our main common points. But I would say that she is more pedagogical and patient than me (Laughs)!
You were still a coach in The Voice And The Voice Kidswhich requires pedagogy… Could you have been a teacher?
I would have loved the relationship with transmission and knowledge. Becoming a teacher requires studies and therefore a lot of concentration, discipline, and I am rather a free electron… I need to give free rein to my imagination.
You grew up in Nice and you live in Corsica. So I imagine that vacations in the mountains aren’t really your thing personally?
Think again ! I have always needed the mountains, there is nothing better to recharge my batteries, I love fresh air, and sometimes getting lost in it. The maquis, Corsica and the Nice hinterland have these powers.
Do you have any memories of school trips?
Yes, a green classroom. I was in middle school, in the fifth grade, and it was the first time that I was going to get on skis and slow dance and kiss a boy on the mouth, during the famous last party with my classmates (Laughs) .
Like the character of Christophe (played by Michaël Youn), would you like to be able to read your children’s minds?
Failing to be born with instructions, I like to discover and learn from them over the years which pass very quickly, too quickly, according to the stages they have to take. No matter what, I will always be here.
Have you, like Marina, ever had an “asshole radar”?
I’m of a rather instinctive nature so assholes didn’t cross the threshold of my heart.
How did your collaboration with Michaël Youn go?
He is an extremely generous playing partner. We always said we would play together one day. Michaël is truly a Swiss army knife in the artistic world. I have a lot of respect and admiration for him. But above all he is a very good actor and a great friend who I really like. I knew I was going to be good with him, he’s passionate like me. And for real, he’s a great dad!
Can he be as annoying as his character in real life?
He’s worse (Laughs)!
Which scene was the funniest to perform?
When Michaël, Christophe therefore, finds himself behind the decks for the last evening, where the music is supposed to be loud. My voice must therefore go above except that to turn it I had to shout this sentence, short but so long for me: “Are you planning to play all night or are you coming to dance” in the most intense silence… There caused unanimous laughter in the room and I must have tried it ten times!
And the most difficult?
The scene that we shot in the evening where I found myself in a room facing one of my students, Mitty Hazanavicius, whom I found exceptional, and to whom I had to give a moral lesson, accompanied by Michaël and Virginie.
What was the highlight of this shoot?
I loved the scenes where we were all together, adults and teenagers alike. This group atmosphere took me back a few years, with this carefreeness and this common joy of making this film together.