TF1 is broadcasting two new episodes of “Lycée Toulouse Lautrec” this evening, the channel’s new event series which accurately deals with the issue of disability, thanks to a cast made up of young actors with disabilities.
This Monday, January 9, TF1 broadcast the first two episodes of Lycée Toulouse-Lautrec, its new event series which follows the fate of the students of an establishment like no other which welcomes students with disabilities.
Viewers were able to meet Marie-Antoinette (Ness Merad), Victoire (China Thybaud), Charlie (Juliette Halloy), Roxana (Aminthe Audiard), Corto (Max Baissette de Malglaive), Hugo (Nolann Duriez), Reda (Adil Dehbi), Jean Philippe (Hippolyte Zaremba) and Maelle (Margaux Lenot), 9 students from this extraordinary high school that really exists. It is also within the establishment itself that the designer Fanny Riedberger wanted to pass the castings.
“In 2021, the team came to present the project”, thus explained Ness Merad, the interpreter of Marie-Antoinette, to the site faire-face.fr. The young woman with congenital muscular dystrophy was then a student at the Toulouse-Lautrec high school.
“From the outset, the bias was to involve young people from high school. They organized a great casting. At first, being unsure of my acting skills, I told myself that I was not going to go. But when I saw that many people were registering, I started! There were several castings. Then I had no news for months. I was starting to not believe it anymore. And, I finally got a phone call“.
Like her, Nolann Duriez, who plays Hugo, and Hippolyte Zaremba, the interpreter of Jean Philippe are also disabled, and are taking their first steps here as an actor. The other students are encamped by young actors.
China Thybaud (Victoire) began her career in the film Everything smiles at us alongside Stéphane de Groodt, whom she also finds in Lycée Toulouse-Lautrec. For her part, Juliette Halloy, the interpreter of Charlie, was seen in Jacqueline Sauvage and School is over.
Aminthe Audiard (Roxana) appeared in 2022 in Peter von Kant by François Ozon. Finally Max Baissette de Malglaive, who lends his features to Corto, is undoubtedly the one who had the most prolific career since he played, among others, Germinal and Diane de Poitiers.
Find two new episodes of Lycée Toulouse-Lautrec this Monday evening from 9:10 p.m. on TF1.