She's funny, and obviously needed it! In Repeated twicea fun school comedy in theaters this Wednesday, March 20, 2024, Louise Bourgoin plays a somewhat unmotivated Latin teacher, who gives good grades to her students as long as they leave her in royal peace. A teacher caught in her own trap when her principal, admiring the good results of her class, sends the latter to an international competition, flanked by her nephews, who are very motivated and stick to principles. A crazy role for the actress, who started as Miss Météo on Canal+ before launching into cinema, with a first role in The Girl from Monaco (2008), of which she has not only good memories. The one who is now very identified with her often dark role of Chloe in the series Hippocrates is delighted to return to the world of comedy, and did not hide her enthusiasm during an interview given at the time of the film's release to Tele-Leisure.
Télé-Loisirs: After having been a science teacher in A serious job (2023), you are a Latin teacher. Are these roles that you particularly like?
Louise Bourgoin: It's a coincidence of timing. I have had two teaching roles, it's true, but they are radically different. A serious job had a documentary side, very plausible, and I played a dedicated teacher, who has difficulty breaking away from her profession. In Repeated twiceI play Delphine, who is a huge wanker! A lot of people in my family are teachers, they have a lot of teacher friends, who marry each other and have teacher children. My cousins are teachers. Playing a teacher is a big responsibility for me, people are waiting for me!
Louise Bourgoin: “I really wanted to return to comedy”
It's been a long time since the public last saw you in a comedy, did you miss it?
L.B. : Yes, I really wanted to find comedy again, but not with just any film. Here, it's a leading role, it's the first time that this has happened to me for a comedy. And it's rare to have a female lead in a comedy. In addition, the subject is very unique, a comedy around Latin. It’s still the ultimate serious option! And the setting was very original, we filmed in Naples, in Pompeii. We were lucky enough to have all of Pompeii privatized for us, we were able to visit the ruins alone, at sunset, it was incredible!
How did the filming go with your students?
-L.B. : They were super professional. When I started working in cinema, I completely sacralized the camera. I came from television where they told me “look at the camera” and suddenly I heard “don't look at the camera” I was very impressed. There, the young people were immediately completely in their element, as if they had been actors for ten or fifteen years, they were doing stories while we were filming. They were very uninhibited about the image, I admire that about them.
Louise Bourgoin: “Both my parents were teachers”
Did you study Latin in your studies?
L.B. : Both my parents were teachers and for them, being in a good class meant doing Latin and learning German. Besides, the two are complementary with the declensions, the gerund… I was average in Latin, but I remembered that my French teacher, who is now deceased, had taught us Move away by MC Solar in Latin! It's the same method that Rodolphe (Xavier Lacaille, editor's note) uses in the film!
Repeated twicecould you show it to your children one day?
L.B. : They are four and eight years old. I just showed them for the first time The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc Secin which I played fifteen years ago. They liked it. It was fun to see myself again, I found myself so young! I don't make films for my children, but that's still very rewarding!
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