In this season, your characters find themselves on a film set taking place in a hospital, in order to collect medical equipment…
Thomas Lilti : Yes, it’s a clear nod to what I saw in 2020. There is this idea that people filming perhaps have more resources than the caregivers in the hospital. Not high-tech equipment, but things that are lacking in reality: walkers, wheelchairs, feet and IV bags, compresses…
You've experienced it too, right?
Yes. We, by dint of filming the series Hippocrates, Since 2016 we have a huge stock. The real hospital was more lacking in equipment than us. For the record, when I returned to work as a doctor, during the pandemic, I was called in and told: “You are going to go to the emergency room. » And when I arrive at the emergency room of the hospital – in which I also shoot –, I realize that I no longer have any equipment. No stethoscope, no hammer for reflexes. What do I do? I then go to my setting and borrow Karim Leklou's stetho and hammer!
Have you carried out any specific research with caregivers for this new season?
No, I am not a researcher. What happens is that people often come to me to testify about what is happening to them in the hospital. This interview work is therefore omnipresent in my life. My concern is rather to find other spaces to nourish my creative work, because I am constantly drawn back to the hospital world.
Hippocrates, every Monday at 9:10 p.m. on Canal+
