“It tells what has never been told“, this is how the actress and singer, Camille Lou, makes our mouths water before the broadcast, Monday November 11 at 9:10 p.m. on TF1, of the new series Cat’s Eyes with Constance Labbé and Claire Romain. People over 50 remember the cartoon Signé Cat’s Eyes broadcast between 1983 and 1985 and which was the variation of the Japanese manga series Tsukasa Hōjō, who kept an eye on his work during filming, as Camille Lou, who plays Tamara, confides. For the record, the three Chamade sisters, Cylia, the eldest, Alexia, the youngest and Tamara, the youngest, run a café called Cat's Eyes. They turn into thieves and tightrope walkers at night in order to find the works of art that their father, who has been missing for several years, owned, to understand what happened to him.
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**This series, transposed to Paris, is therefore not a remake, but a prequel, in which Camille Lou is unrecognizable. Even though the author encouraged her to create her character, she confides that it was very important for her to resemble the original Tamara: “I couldn't get over it, I said to myself: I can't do anything else, I need to have bangs, long black hair“As in cartoon characters, we discover mischief in his eyes.”I am often told that in life, my expressions resemble those of cartoon characters. So it's a little in spite of me“, she confides.
“I find myself singing very often in the series that I do. It’s quite funny.”
In this series, we can also hear him perform songs by Céline Dion and Jean-Jacques Goldman. “It doesn't bother me, it takes me back to my first loves“, she assures.
Six months of physical and mental preparation
A role which required enormous preparation from Camille Lou, since the series is filmed in “live action”, in real shots. “J“I also did a huge amount of sports preparation beforehand, six months before starting filming to put myself in physical and mental condition, to be a thief_”, explains the actress. Dressed in a Lycra suit, she did the long days of filming, stunts in the cold, day and night and without stiletto heels, of course, “this is not possible because it is not realistic and this manga had to be anchored in reality“.
“He’s a mix of Lupine and Robin Hood.”
“It's a bit of a feminine Lupine, explains Camille Lou. There is something of Lupine in the form and Robin Hood in the substance, because it is resolving an injustice“So, no walk in the forest, but the series also allows us to discover emblematic places of Paris at night: Montmartre, the Château de Versailles, the Louvre. “We were alone, alone in front of the Mona Lisa, it was quite incredible to experience” and then the Eiffel Tower at night: “I didn't know that the Eiffel Tower moved with the wind, it was impressive“. A unique adventure, “moments you only experience once“, she concludes.
