Audrey Dana plays the wife of the masked rider, “the first hero” of her “childhood”

The series “Zorro” with Jean Dujardin and Audrey Dana arrives on France 2 from Monday. Eight episodes for this dusted-off adventure comedy in which, for once, Gabriella, Zorro’s wife, has her place.

“He’s the first hero of my childhood“, assures actress and director Audrey Dana. She slipped into the role of Gabriella, the wife of Don Diego de la Vega aka Zorro in the new version made up of eight episodes, Zorrodedicated to the one who emerges out of the night. 20 years older, but still charming, Zorro will be broadcast from Monday December 23 on France 2. Already accessible on the France TV platform, the series had already been programmed on Paramount+ and half a million viewers were seduced by this troop.for two“, as she recalls.

It’s an adventure comedy that features scenes worthy of vaudeville.”she can’t imagine for a single second that it’s the same man because there is one who is extremely formal, and the other who has absolutely nothing to do with it“, confides Audrey Dana. In previous versions, Zorro’s wife had a more than secondary role, but this time, she is one of the heroines of the series and she is not content to make pies for her husband While it is 1820, she is an intrepid, adventurous, committed heroine who rides a horse and wields a sword.

“It’s the most beautiful role I’ve ever played.”

“Five months of filming spread out over time, it was such a variation of emotions, she confides, and then Jean Dujardin behind the mask…“. A partner that she describes as exceptional, “an actor who is truly perfect for this role” and which even made her forget the former interpreters of the masked vigilante like Guy Williams, who was rampant in the 50s. A role which, according to her, marks her return as an actress: “I devoted a lot of time to directing, now I’m coming back, it’s putting me back in the spotlight as an actress“.

So will this series, whose success on Paramount+ was a huge surprise, have a season 2? “It’s not in the pipeline, Audrey Dana responds bluntly, there was such promise, such surprises in this season that it would have to live up to it, as surprising, as offbeat, and confusing“. “You never know what to expect when you watch the series, so it’s worth seeing…” she concludes.