While she was in remission of her cancer, Émilie Dequenne turned “the seventh dance”, episode of the series “Captain Marleau” broadcast on France 2 this Friday. A shooting including director Josée Dayan and actress Corinne Masiero remembered with emotion.
This is the latest filming of Émilie Dequenne. Between May and June 2024, the actress then in remission of her cancer, turned in “Captain Marleau”, in the episode “The seventh dance”. The disease prevented her from going further: cancer returned and finally swept away. Émilie Dequenne died Sunday March 16, at the age of 43. Enough to make the episode, broadcast on France 2, Friday May 9, 2025, a special moment for the teams.
“I wanted to work with Émilie because she is a very, very beautiful actress, very talented. I had a very beautiful character who could correspond to her and the shooting fell right when she was in remission and when she wanted to work. This synchronicity enchanted me and she too, I believe, “explains director Josée Dayan in an interview with” TV Mag “. She offered him the role of Véronique, owner with her husband Alexandre (Grégoire Bonnet) of a welcoming area each year a dance festival. Festival during which the couple’s daughter disappeared, before Alexander’s brother was found murdered. Hence the intervention of Captain Marleau (Corinne Masiero).
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-“On the set of Captain Marleau, Émilie was surely tired, but she did not show him. I told her to go, I was trying to develop the schedules, to protect her. She always replied: “All is well”. She was in a magnificent mood on the set, “added Josée Dayan. And to entrust: “It was what she needed after what she had just experienced. All of a sudden, it was a renewal for her. I am happy to have participated in this pleasant parenthesis. »»
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A “family atmosphere” on the set, with the daughter and the husband of Émilie Dequenne
Corinne Masiero also retains the courage of Emilie Dequenne. “I discovered an exceptional, bright, joyful and empathetic woman. Someone very laughing too. I witnessed his courage. We knew she was sick. She was not hiding from it and was sometimes tired. But it was our ray of sunshine, “she slipped into an interview with” Télé Loisirs “. While Caroline Margerridon, who plays in the episode, told “Gala”: “She was not trying to show us that she was suffering from something, and I think that was her strength. Her daughter, Milla, Who was her makeup artist tried to protect her during the shooting. »»
Émilie Dequenne had come with the family on the set, with her daughter Milla at the HMC [habillage, maquillage, coiffure, ndlr] So, but also with her husband Michel Ferracci, who had a small role in the episode. “At no time was it sad or difficult. On the contrary, Emilie’s good humor was contagious. Whatever her state of fatigue, she had this spark in the gaze. She was happy to play, to be with us, “added Corinne Masiero, for whom it was and that will remain” one of [ses] most beautiful filming ”. “It was an almost family atmosphere. »»
