The excellent Caroline Anglade is starring in the mini-series “Factice” broadcast from this Tuesday, January 14 simultaneously on 13ème rue and the Universal+ platform. She plays the role of Victoire, a mother riddled with debt who begins manufacturing and selling false papers to get her head above water.
Dummy is one of the great surprises at the start of 2025. Brilliantly mixing suspense, drama and humor, this six-episode mini-series features Caroline Anglade in the role of Victoire, an uneventful mother whose life turns upside down overnight. Her troubles begin the day when her husband, hospitalized after an accident on a construction site, tells her that he is riddled with debt and that he has mortgaged their house.
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Back against the wall, Victoire then decides to use her former talents as a graphic designer and her natural gift for counterfeiting to make and sell fake papers at high prices. Helped by her brother Jérémie (Constantin Vidal), who she houses in a cottage at the bottom of her garden, the mother launches into this very lucrative business without realizing the consequences, and quickly finds herself caught in a terrible spiral.
A French Breaking Bad
“It’s a thriller with a pop side, humor, and hyper-complex characters,” analyzes Caroline Anglade during a press meeting. The actress was immediately seduced by the unique scenario of Dummy and loved the character of Victoire. “It was the first time that I was offered to play a role like that, that of a good woman in all respects, medical secretary, mother, who will fall into something very dark,” explains the actress who found it “enjoyable” to go into this area. “It made me think of Breaking Bad from the first reading”, she rejoices. Dummy actually keeps us in suspense as well as the American series thanks to a frantic pace and multiple twists and turns.
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A shock duo
The strength of this mini-series, created by Julien Messemackers to whom we owe Ten percent, lies above all in his duo: Victoire and her brother Jérémie form a great team despite their differences in character and life trajectory. The chemistry between the two actors is particularly credible. “From the start, there was something very organic with Constantin (editor’s note: the interpreter of Jérémie), particularly in the relationship with the body,” Caroline Anglade explains to us. “We don’t have much in common physically and ultimately we see a certain resemblance on screen,” underlines the actress.
Her character’s interactions with Edith (Anne Consigny), an unscrupulous criminal, are also particularly tasty because everything opposes these two women. “I hadn’t gotten to know Anne before filming and that helped me because I was supposed to be impressed by this powerful woman and stand up to her at the same time,” confides Caroline Anglade. Anne Consigny reveled in the situation: “I wanted to impress her. For one scene, I asked the prop masters to prepare me a steak tartare. When she arrived, I was eating this steak and I had the feeling that I was eating her (Laughs),” the actress explains to us. Will Victoire and her brother Jérémie escape the clutches of the evil Edith? Response from January 14 on the 13ème rue channel and the Universal+ platform.
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