Broadcast this Wednesday evening on France 2, the TV film “Droit de regard” follows a character who gradually loses his sight. A role that was not entrusted to just any actress.
It’s not easy being a parent, even less so when you have a disability. This Wednesday, January 31, France 2 explores a whole aspect of parenthood that is still rarely highlighted in fiction with the broadcast, at 9:10 p.m., of a new TV film, called Droit de regard.
A mother faced with a double ordeal
As a reminder, Right of inspection tells the story of Alexandra (Camille Goudeau), an energetic thirty-something and highly appreciated professional coach.
Unfortunately, the young woman suffers from glaucoma, a chronic eye disease, which means that she is gradually losing her sight.
The consequences for Alexandra are all the more serious as she is in divorce proceedings with Yann (Raphaël Lenglet), the father of her two children.
A question then bothers her: as the hearing before the judge approaches, will she succeed in convincing the courts that she can adapt and retain custody of her children despite her disability?
“I too lost my sight and I have two children that I raised alone”
In front of their screen, part of the public will certainly ask themselves another question: is Camille Goudeau, who plays the main character in this TV film, also visually impaired or blind?
Asked about this at the La Rochelle fiction festival last September, the actress explained how she prepared for this role. “Before filming, for acting reasons, I went to see blind people. Being visually impaired but not blind, I needed, for example, to know how to use a white cane”, confides Camille Goudeau. “Some of these people then guided me, a bit like consultants, during the filming.”she continues.
Behind Alexandra’s story, we find above all that of Anne-Sarah Kertudo, the co-writer of Right of inspection. “This story is partly a true story since I too lost my sight and I have two children that I raised alone”, she says, also at the La Rochelle fiction festival. “I was also inspired by all the feedback I received from people with disabilities. Afterwards, there is a part of the story which is fictionalized”adds the screenwriter.
“It brought absolutely no difficulty on the set”
For her, it was important that the leading role of Right of inspection be entrusted to an actress directly concerned by the subject. “We had to be consistent. If you want to say that people with disabilities are like everyone else, you have to show that they can work like everyone else”explains Anne-Sarah Kertudo.
Especially since the presence of disabled people in the casting had no impact on the filming. “It brought absolutely no difficultyremembers a member of the production. For each shoot, we try to anticipate as best we can the problems we will encounter. Here, we made sure to have a little more time than on other shoots to be able to adapt to the needs of each actress. And in reality, it happened exactly like on all the other shoots I’ve done.”she says.
The result of this filming is, in any case, broadcast this Wednesday January 31 at 9:10 p.m. on France 2 and can also be (re)watched online on france.tv.