Fabienne Lepic (Valérie Bonneton) is in love with an American officer, John… Finally in the romantic-erotic novel that she decided to write. As for Renaud (Guillaume de Tonquédec), he is desperate to be put into early retirement at Binet taps. On the Bouley side, it's not any brighter, Valérie (Isabelle Gelinas) has fallen into conspiracy since covid, and no longer takes medication, while Denis (Bruno Salomone) still stubbornly refuses to go to work , it must be said that France Travail offered him the job of being a zoo keeper or a dog groomer. Faced with the looming depression, the children decide to enroll them in a crazy project: send the first four civilians to the Moon, for Operation Gallica! Willy-nilly, the couples begin the selections, even if it means sabotaging them… Are they going to leave? The captain (François Vincentelli) participates in the decision!
“We only have blows to take”
Four years after their last adventures, and seven years after the end of the series, all the protagonists – the two couples and all their children – come together for a double episode. We meet them in a photo studio, true to themselves, complicit and caustic. “We wouldn’t have left, with the children, without a strong story. We have already done everything, so we would not have said yes to one more trip, to India or Canada,” explains Guillaume de Tonquédec. “It’s a small risk, each time, that we are told “it’s not as good”. We only have blows to take, but it's an absolute joy to see each other again. » Same precious moment for Fabienne Lepic (Valérie Bonneton) who returns to “her house” with emotion. “We love them. It’s like a character, the Boulays prefer their house and we ours,” laughs the actress, before saying more about what worries Fabienne. “She discovers her true personality as an author. She tells herself that she is an artist, that she creates. Not realizing that you're missing the point when you're very invested, as a comic lever, it always works. The children are grown up and she tells herself that it's time to live…” Equally positive, Bruno Salomone (Denis Boulay) “loves to rediscover the complementarity and universal duality between the two families. The bobos make the reacts and vice versa. The lack of openness is not in those we think. »
Jamy and Jean-François Clervoy
On the filming side, considering going to the Moon is more restrictive than going to Sèvres and cannot be improvised. “We worked with Jean-François Clervoy (the astronaut, Editor’s note) who was technical support on the series. He explained the recycling of air in the helmet, takeoff, positions, movements in space… We also created a partnership with the European Space Agency and filmed in the real control center in Germany just before the launch of Ariane 6″, explains Alexandre Castagnetti, the author and director of this double episode. “We also worked with Jamy so that it was educational as well as being fun. You never know, fiction can give vocations,” he concludes. On the way to the Moon?
“We are going to walk on the Moon”
Wednesday December 18, at 9:05 p.m., on France 2.
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