In Erica, our heroine instantly falls for Patrick, a somewhat surly police captain. The opportunity for Julie de Bona to tell us more about this very original love story!
Starting this evening, TF1 will broadcast two new episodes of Erica. And the least we can say is that Patrick (Grégory Fitoussi) will have the surprise of his life when he discovers that Erica (Julie de Bona) is pregnant with him and that she waited four months for him. tell him.
Far from romances where the passion between the two heroes is slow to take hold, here the two characters give in to temptation from the start. The opportunity for AlloCiné to question Julie de Bona on this particularly interesting difference: “What I found original is that the issue is not that they are a couple.”
She continues: “They are meant to be together and they are in love. The issue is how they are going to keep it together. She is pregnant with him even though they have only slept together once, but they are not not even as a couple.”
“Four months later, she comes back and she hasn't talked about it, becauseShe is very afraid of his reaction. The whole issue is: 'Are we raising them together?' 'What do we do?' It’s super interesting!” confides the actress.
It is therefore not a question of following a common thread investigation, but rather their romance: “Their relationship is undermined like in romantic comedies, but it is not the romantic comedy of meeting, of the first kiss and of the first time precisely! It is rather the first kiss which is the start.”
“The romantic comedy will last throughout the series”
“The part, 'they lived happily and had many children' that we don't see and happens afterwards, in general, we will see it precisely. The romantic comedy will last throughout the series. We will see ask how they are going to stay together despite everything that happens to them”, explains Julie de Bona enthusiastically.
-But then, how did the collaboration of the two actors go? “With Grégory, we didn't know each other, but we had each wanted to work with the other for a while. We had the same agent and he had been pushing us to work together for years.”
“I really wanted him for my part, because I found him great in his series. And when I was told it was him, it was obvious. I wouldn't have imagined someone like other than him. He was completely perfect to play the cop and I think he represented the disillusioned romantic comedy character, a little cursed because he can't see that he's wonderful.”
“The meeting was obvious”
“The meeting was obvious and we hadn't worked together before to keep this freshness. I think it works really well. You definitely didn't have to work for the magic to happen. She's pregnant and they don't know how they're going to do it and if they're going to be together. It’s a beauty of subtlety.”
“They are experiencing a budding love, but at the same time, it is much too fast, because they are already parents. They are afraid that it will go wrong! I find that there is a lot of second degree and nuances to play, and with Greg we had a blast playing that”, she concludes.
Don't miss the rest ofErica broadcast this evening from 9:10 p.m. on TF1.
