Broadcast tonight on M6, the series “The man of our lives” features Jonathan Zaccaï in the shoes of a con man who seduces women to steal their money. A thriller, also starring Elodie Frégé, inspired by several true stories.
Already available on Salto for a few months, the mini-series in 4 episodes The man of our lives begins this evening on M6.
Carried by Jonathan Zaccaï, Odile Vuillemin, Héléna Noguerra, Flore Bonaventura and Elodie Frégé, this thriller in the vein of L’Arnaqueur de Tinder and Dirty John tells the story of a crook, a “hunterheart” who becomes alternately call Roman, Amaury, or Nathan.
Airline pilot, surgeon, in the field for “Doctors Without Borders”, former trader, great reporter… For each of his jobs, he knew how to deceive. The art of convincing, but above all the art of pleasing. It’s genius. He made it his livelihood. This gift is used to him to manipulate women that he offloads of their savings. Charming and attentive, in the eyes of each of them, he was the man of their lives, before disappearing.
For Camille, Mathilde, Oriane and Iris, victims of this serial lover, the consequences are heavy: dislocated families, depression, bankruptcy… But above all they loved him and are recovering as badly from his abandonment as from the concrete consequences on their lives. However, they will have to face it. And, together, they will team up to catch him.
A series inspired by true stories
Written by Marie Guilmineau, Alice van Den Broek and Eliane Vigneron, who won the prize for Best Screenplay last September at the La Rochelle Festival, The Man of Our Lives is “freely” inspired by several true stories that have hit the headlines. chronicle, like those of the American Derek Alldred, Christophe Rocancourt, or Jacques Masset according to M6.
We also obviously think of the story of Shimon Hayut, told in the Netflix documentary The Tinder Scammer, who defrauded many targeted women through a dating application.
But according to Jonathan Zaccaï, who lends his features to the anti-hero of the M6 series, it is indeed Derek Alldred from whom The man of our lives is mainly inspired. Without falling into the adaptation or the biopic.
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“To prepare myself to play this character, I watched the documentary about this con man, which is quite incredible. It is really fascinating”he told us during the La Rochelle Festival. “Obviously, I followed the path that was written in the script. We’re not really in a biopic, the series is lighter in a way. It’s less heavy than this guy’s story, airplane pilot, ex-Vietnam, who scammed thirty women, it’s very, very heavy. It’s ultra creepy”.
A true professional hustler, Derek Alldred, who posed as a fighter pilot, firefighter, professor or defense analyst, was the subject of a documentary, Seduced By Evil In Person (Seduced By Evil), which was released in 2019.
And as in The man of our lives, it is thanks to the action of the women from whom he took everything that Derek Alldred ended up behind bars.