Audrey Fleurot is currently filming the fifth and final season of HPIof which she is the heroine. With more than 12 million viewers, fiction broke audience records on TF1. Purchased in 105 countries, adapted for the United States, this series is nominated in the best comedy category at the Emmy Awards, the ceremony of which will take place in New York on Monday, November 25. At 47, the actress, and now producer, relishes the notoriety that her character as a gifted and crazy investigator has brought her.
I wouldn't have gotten here if…
…If my parents had not both been thwarted in their professional desires by their own parents. Even if they were worried about my desire to pursue an artistic career, convinced that it was necessary to have connections in this field to be able to access it, they were ready to support my desire, because theirs had been suppressed. My mother would have wanted to write, to be an author. Her parents told her: “Look, you're already going to sew…” She eventually became a childcare assistant and still doesn't know how to hem! My father would have liked to become a surveyor. His parents refused to register him for the exam, under the pretext that his older brother had failed. Coming from a military family, he became a professional firefighter.
What memories do you have of life in the barracks?
After Mantes-la-Jolie [Yvelines]we settled at the Château-Landon barracks, in the 10e district of Paris. As an only child, I loved it there because it had a big gymnasium where all the kids would hang out and play. But, after a few years, my mother got tired of life in barracks, a life governed by her husband's rank, and we moved to Place des Fêtes, in 19e arrondissement.
You have often spoken of a decisive evening experienced at the age of 8…
I would never have embarked on an artistic career if my father had not taken me to the Comédie-Française. He was always flattered that I told this story, but we must give back to Caesar what is Caesar's. That evening, my father was on duty at the Comédie-Française, and it was my mother who said to him: “Take the kid. » During that evening, I experienced an epiphany.
That's to say ?
It was a play by Carlo Goldoni, with Catherine Hiegel. I watched the show from the service seat, between the hall and the stage. I saw the changes of scenery, the actors running around, and I discovered that you could tell stories, play characters, be someone else. I liked the idea of doing a job that would allow you, for a given time, to have another life. I absolutely wanted to perform on stage. It is an incredible opportunity to have such evidence in your life. I got it when I was 8, and I organized my whole life around it.
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