Did you know that the comedy “Les Tuche 3”, broadcast this Sunday evening on TF1, had something in common with the last two installments of the Hollywood saga “Hunger Games”? We’ll let you know which one.
Difficult, a priori, to make more diametrically opposed than the sagas of Tuche and Hunger Games. And yet, there is a common point between these franchises, and more precisely between Les Tuche 3, broadcast this Sunday evening on TF1, and the last two parts of the fantastic series led by Jennifer Lawrence.
The common point between Les Tuche and Hunger Games is a filming location: the Château de Voisins, located in the town of Saint-Hilarion in the Yvelines. In Les Tuche 3, the building was used as a “double” for the Elysée Palace, while in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay: Part 1 and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, it serves as a setting for the home of President Snow, played by Donald Sutherland, as well as the iconic Rose Garden scene.
For several decades, the Château de Voisins has regularly been used as a filming location, mostly for French productions, from La Totale to Vatel and the recent mini-series Le Bazar de la Charite.
The building has the particularity of being often requisitioned to represent the Elysée Palace. This is therefore the case for Les Tuche 3, with a Jeff (Jean-Paul Rouve) who moved there after being elected to the top of the State, but also, in the past, for L’Etat de grace and President as well as for the series Les Hommes de l’ombre, broadcast between 2012 and 2016 on France 2.
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