Fleur Geffrier, to be found in Shores this Monday evening on France 2, in the shoes of an oceanologist who investigates the mysterious sinking of a trawler belonging to her father, will remember this filming for a very long time. “We shot the scenes on the water in Fécamp, in winter, and we had to deal with the vagaries of the sea. We sometimes found ourselves in situations that scared us a little..”, she notably told Télé 7 Jours, she who plays the role in this fiction of Guillaume Labbé, Constance's brother, who is also on the bill in‘Escort Boys.
In addition to the scenes filmed on raging waves, the shots taken underwater were not a long, quiet river either. “Under the Channel, with cameras, you can't see two meters away. When we arrived in the Mediterranean where you can see the seabed twenty meters away, I went to sit on a bench and collapsed. The tension of the two months spent on the Alabaster Coast was suddenly evacuated!”, explained David Hourrègue, the director of this series, to Télé-Loisirs.
Let us point out, however, that all means have been deployed to ensure the safety of the team, at the cost of quasi-military vigilance. During the offshore sequences, maritime coordinators monitored boat maneuvers. Et divers were ready to intervene during the scenes filmed underwater.
Filming in extreme conditions
“Filming at sea is, first of all, a lesson in humility. The weather, the light and the currents are constantly changing and we find ourselves facing five meter dips, with actors and technicians receiving kilos of water in the face! I really want to pay tribute to them because, although I felt that they sometimes took me for a raving madman, we remained friends!” also assured David Hourrègue, to whom we previously owe the adaptation of Germinal for France 2.
This man therefore remained very present for his actors during filming. He also dived, as Fleur Geffrier explained to Télé 7 Jours: “The water was very cold and after an hour I started to shiver. A body double therefore replaced me for the wider shots. But David stayed. One day he dived for almost six hours! We called him Aquaman at times.”
