“The actors and technicians took kilos of weight to their faces!” The extreme conditions of filming for the France 2 event series told by the director

Monday January 6, at 9:05 p.m., France 2 offers the first two episodes of Shoresfantastic mini-series played by Fleur Geffrier, Thierry Godard, Jean-Marc Barr and Guillaume Labbé. David Hourrègue, its director, will long remember the particularly epic sea filming! Here's why…

With Shores (our opinion), France 2 is starting the year with an event series, filmed, among other places, on the Normandy coast, in extreme conditions. A particularly successful ecological thriller, carried by Fleur Geffrier (revealed in Drops of God)Thierry Godard, Guillaume Labbé (starring in Escort Boys), Jean-Marc Barr and a young actor, Ewenn Weber, who, for his first appearance on screen in the role of a hearing-impaired schoolboy, will not go unnoticed. Back behind the scenes of the feat!

Shores : filming at sea with depths of five meters!

If there is one shoot that director David Hourrègue will remember, it is that of Shores ! When he receives the scenario of this meeting between an oceanologist played by Fleur Geffrier and a mysterious creature lurking at the bottom of the seas, he knows that the adventure will be unlike any other. Reality far exceeded his presentiment… Boxed between October 2023 and January 2024, this thriller highlighting the deleterious relationship between men and Nature, and revealing the daily routine of the fishing community, was mainly filmed on the Channel. “Filming at sea is, first of all, a lesson in humilityconfesses the director to whom we previously owe the adaptation of Germinal for France 2. 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!” he jokes.

Shores : Divers ready to intervene at the slightest alert

If all means are deployed to ensure the safety of the team at the cost of quasi-military vigilance, David Hourrègue knows that zero risk does not exist. During offshore sequences, maritime coordinators ensure boat maneuvers. In addition to the scenes filmed on raging waves, the shots taken underwater were not a long, quiet river either. For eight days, the director directs his actors into the depths, braving the cold and the diminishing oxygen level in his oxygen tanks. At the slightest alert, the divers around them are ready to intervene. After two months of filming in Normandy, the team then set sail for Corsica and its milder climates. “Under the Channelcontinues David Hourrègue, 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!”.