“I wanted to protect myself“. In an interview with “Paris Match”, actress and director Doria Tillier, whose series “Iris” will be broadcast from November 25 on Canal+, was asked about her recent appearance on the show “Quotidien” on TMC, which had caused a lot of talk, the actress revealed that she should have returned to Yann Barthès' set the following week, but that she had “.declined“, pour “protect yourself“.
“From there to making several articles titled like this…”
Doria Tillier here refers to the articles published following her interview on the talk show, where she came to promote the series “Children are kings” on Disney +, accompanied by Géraldine Nakache with whom she shares the poster. “Moment of tension, embarrassed laughter… what happened with actress Doria Tillier who threw a chill on the set of 'Quotidien'?“, had for example titled “Midi Libre”. “Nervous, blank laughter, hesitations… Discomfort during Doria Tillier's appearance in 'Quotidien' live on TMC“, wrote “TV Magazine”, while “Téléstar” affirmed: “Doria Tillier does not mince her words and creates discomfort on the set of 'Quotidien'“.
During the interview with Yann Barthès, the actress notably stated several times that her role in the Disney+ series was “the only one“that she had”done without really understanding it“, in a somewhat disjointed passage.”If we watch the show, I can understand that we feel a certain unease“, recognizes Doria Tillier in the columns of the issue of “Paris Match” published this Thursday, November 21. “But to go from there to making several articles titled like this… This is absolutely not representative!“, she denounced. Before sharing a radical decision: “I'm not going to go on TV anymore. (…) In my first short film as director and screenwriter (“La diagonale des fous”, editor's note), there was a character (…) who was a journalist and a horrible person. I had this thing of saying to myself: 'These journalists are mentally ill. They are crazy and it's serious'”, she added.
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The actress was, however, a guest on Wednesday November 20 on the show “C à vous”, on France 5. Accompanied by Pascale Arbillot, she came to present her first series as director “Iris”, in which she plays alongside Pascale Arbillot therefore, but also François Morel, Anaïde Rozam and Jeanne Balibar.
