Doria Tillier assures her, she only got to know Iris after Canal+, in the person of Maxime Saada, the channel's chairman of the board, gave her a very vague order for a project. “He had seen my short film The Diagonal of Fools, remembers the progenitor ofIris, and loved it so much that he bought it. They told me “propose something”, I asked to be given a deadline. »
The central character was born from this desired constraint and the distressed observation that “people say anything to avoid disagreeing”established by Doria Tillier over the course of a busy career (Miss Météo on Canal+, Madame Adelman alongside Nicolas Bedos, unworthy mother of Kimmy Diore in Children are kingsto set some milestones).
Iris, a teacher and author for young people in the making, works against this practice. Her propensity to sincerely express her opinion, on the culinary talents of the friend who receives it or on the relevance of her editor's advice, for example, complicates her life – romantic, professional, social. “People told me they found her odious”confides the performer and director, surprised. It's true that Iris is touching, weighed down by a guilty conscience when she sees the effects of her addiction to the truth on those close to her.
From burlesque to melancholy
Doria Tillier finds a family link with Larry David, author and central character of Larry and his belly button (Curb Your Enthusiasm), the Hollywood misanthrope who has just bowed out after twelve seasons. “I don’t find Larry David odious, he’s spontaneous”specifies Doria Tillier, before quoting a sentence “by an English author” (Horace Walpole) which she apologizes for using in other interviews: “The world is a comedy for those who think, a tragedy for those who feel. »
“Iris oscillates between the twoshe continues, and this oscillation sets the tone of the series. » This is how we can move from burlesque (a fabulous sequence in a social evening) to the melancholy of the last episode.
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Comedy according to Doria Tillier, “it’s the language that interests me, the one I prefer to convey messages” – and one of the messages she wants to convey concerns love. In the series, Iris meets (literally on a sidewalk, at night) a man who could be her father. This character is played by François Morel, unexpected and perfectly accurate.
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