In the series “The man of our lives”, Jonathan Zaccaï is chilling in the role of a man who seduces women to defraud them. But it was another actor who was originally to play this professional hustler in the M6 thriller.
Launched this evening on M6, the mini-series The man of our lives was almost a little different.
Written by Marie Guilmineau, Alice Van den Broek and Eliane Vigneron, and directed by Frédéric Berthe (Pour Sarah), this four-episode thriller in the vein of L’Arnaqueur de Tinder begins when Oriane (Flore Bonaventura), a nurse who recently inherited from her mother’s fortune, marries Amaury (Jonathan Zaccaï), a French-speaking Canadian surgeon who looks good in every way and is undoubtedly the man of her dreams.
But what Oriane does not know is that her husband is a manipulator who seduces women with the aim of defrauding them.
He has already taken everything from Anna Vautier, a young woman who tried to warn Oriane on their wedding day, but to no avail. Then to Camille (Odile Vuillemin), manager of a hotel who fell madly in love with Nathan, a regular customer, former trader, who ended up disappearing overnight after emptying the establishment’s accounts.
As Amaury/Nathan prepares to start his formidable scheme again under the name of Roman with a certain Mathilde (Héléna Noguerra), devoted to her company and her daughter, Camille sets out to find the one who scammed her. . Determined, by the way, to open her eyes to her other victims who are blindly in love. In order to stand up against him and obtain justice. But will they be able to bring him down?
Ary Abittan was to play the scammer of the series
The man of our lives, which also includes Elodie Frégé in its cast, owes a lot to the performance of Jonathan Zaccaï, who excels in the skin of the man who alternately pretends to be a doctor, an airline pilot, or a trader.
But the actor, seen in particular in Unfaithful and in The Office of Legends, was not the first choice of production since it was Ary Abittan who was initially to play the role of this professional hustler.
Ary Abittan had even started filming the series for a little over two weeks when he was indicted and placed under judicial supervision on November 2, 2021, after accusations of rape.
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M6 and the production companies Sibaro Films and Shine Fiction therefore immediately replaced Ary Abittan. And Jonathan Zaccaï, who joined the adventure along the way, returned all the scenes already boxed with the actor of What did we do to God?.
And if we are to believe his statements at the La Rochelle Festival, Jonathan Zaccaï did not hesitate long before accepting the role of Amaury/Nathan/Roman/Guillaume. “It’s hard to refuse a role like that. There is a real jubilation in playing such a character. There is a tone between comedy and serious things, a form of lightness while dealing with a serious subject, I I liked this aspect of the script a lot..
“I found it interesting to approach this character as someone who changes in relation to the people he meets. It’s almost like a disease, he adapts to the person he has in front of him, in different intimacies. .He becomes someone else every time to target the person he is dealing with”.
The man of our lives is also available in full on the Salto platform.