the actress transported by emergency services

The Festival des Arcs started very badly for Karin Viard. She had a skiing accident and had to be transported by emergency services. The actress documented the unfortunate moment on her Instagram.

The 16th edition of the Festival des Arcs, which celebrates cinema in the heart of the Alps, had started well for actress Karin Viard, as evidenced by the festival's social networks. But a few hours after her first event, the 58-year-old actress was the victim of a skiing accident. Full of self-deprecation, despite the gravity of the moment, Karin Viard published a video of herself being transported away from the ski slopes by the emergency services on a stretcher, on Instagram, this Sunday, December 15, 2024. In the description From the short video, she explained: “And head trauma after 1 minute of skiing! It’s called talent!!!!” He can also be heard saying: “The memory is very scary”just after talking with a person who came to help him.

The same morning Karin Viard participated in the signing of her Slope of Fame, alongside Pio Marmaï, Vimala Pons, Sofiane Zermani and Céline Sallette. The actress, starring in the new political series In the Shadowbroadcast on France 2 in November, was in the spotlight for this edition. The organizers of the Festival des Arcs had specified: “As part of the spotlight on Karin Viard, we will screen, on Tuesday December 17 – as a preview of her masterclass – the feature film Une nuit, a romantic melodrama that she co-wrote and performed alongside by director and actor Alex Lutz.

Karin Viard marked by her meeting with Édouard Philippe

During an interview with 7 Days TVon October 14, the 58-year-old actress told a rather funny anecdote. During the production of the series In the shadowsadapted from the book of the same name, written by Édouard Philippe, she met the former Prime Minister. She revealed: “With Gilles Boyer, they came to the set.” Before adding: “I remember an answer he gave me, which I love: 'In politics, as long as you're not dead, you're still alive.' And so that means you can always come back.” And she used the tenant of Matignon as an example and concluded: “Could Michel Barnier have thought, a year ago, that he would become Prime Minister? Never in life!”

Article written with the collaboration of 6Médias.