Sara Mortensen returned for AlloCiné to the sometimes dangerous backstage of the filming of “L’Abîme”. Here, she plays a woman with a troubled past who finds herself on the run when her past resurfaces…
On Wednesday February 15, 2023, France 2 continues to broadcast its new mini-series L’Abîme, from 9:10 p.m. Last week, no less than 4.35 million curious people got to know Elsa and Laurent Lacaze, who look like a model couple…
“The Abyss”, an intriguing series
Played by Sara Mortensen (who spoke about this experience) and Gil Alma, these very loving spouses who have been married for twenty years are the devoted parents of Lucie, a bubbly teenager. However, one morning, Elsa does not return from her usual jog and disappears without a trace.
The world of Laurent, and of his daughter, is tinged at first with anguish… then ends up collapsing when the police tell them that Elsa is not the person she claims to be. Laurent must face the facts: the woman he is in love with is an enigma. An enigma whose past resurfaces today…
Shot in grandiose natural settings, L’Abîme presents places with a particular charm on the screen. As Sara Mortensen explained to us: “In the Gorges du Verdon, we shot in Moustiers-Sainte-Marie, then in the Cassagne estate, with a magnificent castle where wine is produced. It is outside of Aix-en-Provence. We were also a little bit in Marseille. And we have been to the Etang de Berre and the Lac de Sainte-Croix.”
Dangerous scenes to shoot
But that’s not all because in the fiction, several sequences under high tension have been boxed in a blowing snow. Shooting in this real place was not without danger, according to Sara Mortensen. The actress revealed to us:We started filming there, these are sets where you can’t stand up. Gil and I are quite tall so we turned bent over… And when we came out the other end of this place, we found ourselves clinging to a cliff!“
She continues: “You have to unfold to get out a little then you come back inside. You can’t walk to stretch your legs through this exit. These are long galleries with holes… When I ran into a tunnel, I had a chance in two of stepping into a hole (laughs) It was high risk! It’s not at all made for what we did but it’s a very beautiful place.”
Sara Mortensen then indicates that these sequences were also hard to shoot for certain members of the technical team who officiated on L’Abîme: “People were indeed dizzy. Because of the height, they couldn’t get on the set. For my part, being there with the whole team reassured me. Everything was fine. I wouldn’t go alone because I wouldn’t have anything to do there already, but in the context of a shoot where there are fifty of us, no problem. (laughs)“