At the start of this season 3, in what state do we find the Poincaré hospital?
The surprise is that this season takes place after Covid. Thomas Lilti, the author and director, decided not to process it. The emergency rooms now close at 8:00 p.m., the hospital assuming that it can no longer take too many people. Which causes great frustration for Chloe, my character, who wants to save everyone. She enters into civil disobedience, and organizes clandestine emergencies within the hospital. This will create friction and serious problems for the future…
How are you like Chloe?
I’m not trying to seduce her, either. She is very frank and direct. What we usually find in male characters, but not female ones, who often flirt, seduce, manipulate. I like it a lot and it looks like me. There is a romance about her that I share, a desire for absolutes, for self-sacrifice. I am very pugnacious and sincere in life, and I think Chloe is too. She doesn’t see the harm in creating a clandestine hospital. There is a kind of deviance, of neurosis, because it is a very big risk, but she wants to help.
“We see women giving birth live in the parking lot” – Louise Bourgoin
Between actors, do you feel the same camaraderie as caregivers do among themselves?
We don’t experience the same struggles, but it’s very disturbing, as the supporting roles are played by real nurses from the Robert-Ballanger hospital, in Aulnay-sous-Bois in Seine-Saint-Denis, in which we are filming . So we know what’s really going on at the hospital. We see women giving birth live in the parking lot… And we have someone directing who is really a doctor, who wants to be as realistic as possible. We can redo shots 45 times because the extra in the third shot didn’t do his injection correctly. We learned very precise technical movements with experts, it’s no joke at all. The right gesture ensures that we speak the right words, and that we feel legitimate.
Were you a fan of medical series before starring in Hippocrates ?
I don’t know at all Grey’s Anatomybut, as a high school student, I watched the series a lot Emergencys, which marked me. I was very much in love with Doctor Carter (laughs). I know it was also a source of inspiration for Hippocrates. At the beginning, Thomas Lilti showed us episodes from the first seasons ofEMERGENCIES.
Looking back, how do you look back on your “miss weather” years at Grand journal from Canal+?
I wanted to be funny. I was given complete freedom, which amazes me in hindsight. I didn’t have an author. Sometimes I left with only a camera operator, I participated in the editing when I made pastilles or imitations. But if I didn’t have an idea, I could sink because I didn’t have help. I was only 24 years old. Fortunately I wasn’t afraid, even if I had big belly flops. And I couldn’t sleep at night. I took it very personally, because I put my whole heart into it. Now I tell myself that I was very hard on myself.
Would you like to do TV again?
I miss sketches. I did it again for the 40th anniversary of Canal+. I really liked it. I am delighted to be able to do it again occasionally for shows. A bit like Queen Valérie Lemercier. Without comparing myself to her.
Are you still in contact with Michel Denisot, who presented the Grand journal ?
He is a very elegant person. He always thinks about my birthday and my party. As well as another… I made the joke one day: “If, on Valentine’s Day, she holds your hand, long live Sainte-Marguerite.” So he wishes it to me too (laughs).
