A few months after the end of “Alice Nevers”, Jean-Michel Tinivelli becomes the hero of a new detective fiction, “Simon Coleman”, broadcast this evening on France 2. In which he slipped a nod to his character from the TF1 series.
A cop hunts another for Jean-Michel Tinivelli. The actor, who for 14 seasons played Fred Marquand on TF1 in Alice Nevers, returns this evening to France 2 in the skin of Simon Coleman, the hero of the eponymous unitary of France 2 who will see his life as a single person change from day on the next day.
A policeman specializing in high-risk undercover missions, Simon Coleman learns at the end of a long immersion that his sister and brother-in-law have died in a tragic accident. Without hesitation, this bachelor without ties abandons his Parisian life to leave to take care of his three nephews in Aix-en-Provence.
And so it’s an unexpected new start that awaits this cop with humor and devastating charm, who will have to learn to combine family life, the role of uncle (and legal guardian), and a new position within a provincial police station where the welcome that will be reserved for him by his new teammate, Audrey Castillon (Raphaëlle Agogué), will not be the warmest.
Fans of Jean-Michel Tinivelli will certainly be delighted to find him in the main role of a fiction which, if successful, could become a series. And if the actor assures that his character “has nothing much to do with Marquand”he still took care to include a little nod to his Alice Nevers years in the France 2 TV movie.
Indeed, as Jean-Michel Tinivelli revealed to us in an interview, the coat Simon is wearing is the same as the one Fred Marquand wore in the TF1 series!
Jean-Louis Paris/FTV/JLA Jean-Michel Tinivelli and his iconic blue coat in Simon Coleman
“It’s a little wink. I wanted to take a souvenir of Alice Nevers with me”he explained to us about the famous navy blue coat of his character. “And in the end it’s quite funny because when people look at Simon Coleman they say to themselves, ‘No, it’s not the same coat.’ And in fact, it’s the same, and we use that”.
“We use this starting point, which is very remarkable, to then open up to something else. Towards the new life of this hardened bachelor who suddenly finds himself the head of a family with children. This extraordinary situation meant that, from anyway, for me it was not necessarily the same cop, so it was not embarrassing that the coat was the same”.
In any case, there is no doubt that the faithful of Alice Nevers, who regret the end of their favorite series after twenty years of existence, will appreciate this little wink.