This Thursday, September 22, TF1 unveils Touchées, the first film as a director by Alexandra Lamy in which Mélanie Doutey and Claudia Tagbo play. The two actresses engage in Télé Star.
A band movie. It is a challenge that is both exhilarating and distressing that Alexandra Lamy has set herself. For the first time since the beginning of his career, the actress went behind the cameradirecting the film Affected, broadcast this Thursday, September 22 on TF1. A first so successful that it won him the prize for best unit at the La Rochelle TV fiction festival. It must be said that for this great first, Alexandra Lamy chose to create a cocoon surrounding himself with his own. Of those she fully trusts: her daughter Chloé Jouannet and one of her closest friends Mélanie Doutey. “The first person I thought of was Mélanie Doutey“, assures us Alexandra Lamy who has found her presence”super reassuring” on the tray. “From the first ‘action’, we were moved, we both cried, it was ridiculous. She’s a great actress so I was totally confident. I had more afraid that it is she who does not have confidence. With Mélanie, you don’t need to do a lot of takes, it’s perfect right away“, enthuses the young director.
mutual admiration. Mélanie Doutey is full of praise for her friend’s skills. “She really is a companion. We feel so loved on his set. She led us as she would like to be ledI think, so there is really a tenderness, a listening. We felt very protected“, tells us the actress. What to alleviate any pressure? “It puts emotional pressure, but not necessarily for me, for her too“, nuance Mélanie Doutey, before detailing: “I wanted her to be as happy as possible. on this set and I didn’t want to disappoint her. But I was so admiring of her energy, of her work, of her investment, of the listening that she had to technicians, actors, of all trades, I find that she was a born director“.
How Claudia Tagbo made her way into Alexandra Lamy’s gang
In this tight-knit group, Claudia Tagbo had to find a place. And she promises us: it was disconcertingly obvious as she was welcomed with open arms. “When she arrived saying ‘It’s you I see in there’, I was already going away winning. I’m wanted at this point, it’s too good“, still marvels Claudia Tagbo who joined this family by real “cuddles“during his meeting with Mélanie Doutey and Chloé Jouannet. The subject of this film being heavy, was it difficult for them to leave their character?”I think she stayed a while“, concedes Claudia Tagbo. It was during a preview, on September 14, that the actress hastook an uppercut“. “I was proud“, recognizes the one who wanted to be an actress since very young and whose role will mark her career. “There, it’s the little girl who says: ‘You’re big my darling, that’s good. wow. You’ve grown up, my dear. Beyond Nicole, I saw little Claudia“, tells us, moved, Claudia Tagbo. Mélanie Doutey is also proud, in particular by seeing the trajectory of her character. “There was a form of liberation for the character of Lucie that I really felt“, she explains to us. Decidedly, this unit will turn lives upside down.
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Melanie Doutey
Melanie Doutey raves about Alexandra Lamy’s directorial skills
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Melanie Doutey and Alexandra Lamy
“She’s really an accompanist. We feel so loved on her set. She directed us as she would like to be directed, I think, so there is really a tenderness, a listening ear. We felt very protected”, tells us Melanie Doutey
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Melanie Doutey
How to alleviate any pressure?
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Melanie Doutey and Alexandra Lamy
“It puts emotional pressure, but not necessarily for me, for her too”, nuance Mélanie Doutey
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Melanie Doutey
And to confide: “I wanted her to be as happy as possible on this set and I did not want to disappoint her”
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Alexandra Lamy and Melanie Doutey
“But I was so admiring of her energy, her work, her investment, the listening she had to technicians, actors, all trades, I think she was a born director” , believes Mélanie Doutey
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Melanie Doutey, Alexandra Lamy, Chloe Jouannet and Claudia Tagbo
In this close-knit group, Claudia Tagbo had to find a place
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Claudia Tagbo
And Claudei Tagbo promises us: it was disconcertingly obvious as she was welcomed with open arms.
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Claudia Tagbo
“When she arrived saying ‘It’s you I see in there’, I was already winning. I’m wanted at that point, it’s too good”, still marvels Claudia Tagbo
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Claudia Tagbo
From now on, Claudia Tagbo is part of the cinema family of Alexandra Lamy, Mélanie Doutey and Chloé Jouannet where she was welcomed by real “hugs”