“My mother couldn’t sleep for a week”

Jean-Luc Reichmann has been an outstanding host since his beginnings on radio in the 80s. But he has also proven his talents as an actor on numerous occasions, notably in the series Léo Matteï, the minors’ brigade the 11th season of which was recently broadcast on TF1. The presenter of Twelve Coups de Midi had also played in an episode of a famous soap opera from the 90s. But his role had, at the time, traumatized his mother.

Jean-Luc Reichmann “death on TV”: this episode which traumatized his mother

In 1992, Jean-Luc Reichmann made his “first appearance as an actor” in an episode of the series Navarroalongside Roger Hanin. If this role was a real opportunity for him, the experience was not necessarily easy to live through. And for good reason, in the series, he played a murderer… who found himself shot dead! “My mother couldn’t sleep for a week seeing me dead on TV“, he recently recalled on his Twitter account, posting an excerpt from the episode.

It took his mother a while to recover from the shock of seeing her son feign death on television. “It was a panic attack for mom at the time. It was my first role and she said to me: ‘But I saw you dead!’ (…) I told her: ‘But mom, it’s fiction.’ It was amazing“, he also confided on the set of the show C the weekly.

Jean-Luc Reichmann, ready to put an end to acting?

If Jean-Luc Reichmann brilliantly takes on the role of host of the Twelve Coups de Midiwhich is a hit on TF1, he does not intend to give up his profession as an actor. “I like to say that life is a big funfair, so you might as well try all the rides. Whether it’s Scrabble, backgammon or the screen, I like to play”he confided to 7 Days TV.

The host has just filmed six episodes in Marseille of the series Léo Matteï, “to obviously defend the cause of children and to prevent all these predators“, he explained in C The weekly. For this 12th season, he also revealed that Mareva Galanter and Karine Ferri would be in the cast…