Lannick Gautry played with Laura Sepul’s son in a France 2 series watched by 4.3 million French people! (PICTURES)

On Thursday May 2, TF1 launched the broadcast of its new fiction, Attraction, a thriller about a criminal case carried by Laura Sépul and Lannick Gautry, for which this filming was “very difficult”, and which received the prize for best foreign French-speaking series at the La Rochelle Fiction Festival. This Franco-Belgian co-production in six episodes, the sequel to which is already being written, follows the life of Agathe, a fulfilled mother who spends happy days with her husband Fred and their two children in a pavilion. The veneer of this perfect family life cracks when a murder is committed in a hotel where her husband was staying. He is suspicious. What if the man with whom she has shared her life for 15 years was in reality a complete stranger? Laura Sépul and Lannick Gautry have immersed themselves body and soul in this psychological thriller. The actor, discreet and modest, even stripped himself naked for the purposes of a sequence in the series.

Attraction: Laura Sépul and Lannick Gautry already had a connection before appearing in the TF1 series

Attraction marks the first collaboration between Laura Sépul and Lannick Gautry and yet the two actors already had a connection before meeting on the set, as the actress revealed in an interview published on the professional site of TF1. “Lannick Gautry is perfect” declared Laura Sépul when asked about the performance of her partner in this ambiguous role, “He’s a very handsome man and at the same time, he’s scary with his build, he’s physically impressive..” By a coincidence, although they had never played together, they already knew each other before working on Attraction. “We didn’t know each other at all before” revealed Laura Sépul in an interview with Télé-Loisirs. “But he had filmed with my son Diego in The prisoner island [Une série de 6x52min, disponible sur france.tv, ndlr]”. The latter played the role of Dorian, one of Alpha’s young hostages, aka Lannick Gautry. So before Laura Sepul started filming Attraction, her son reassured her about her playing partner: “Diego told me: “Don’t worry Mom, he’s really nice.”

Attraction : Lannick Gautry almost didn’t play the role of Laura Sépul’s husband in the TF1 series

The family ties don’t stop there since Geert Van Rampelberg, Laura Sépul’s city husband, almost played the role of her husband on screen instead of Lannick Gautry. “At the very beginning, there was talk that it would be him” revealed the actress to Télé-Loisirs, “But after reading it, we both decided it wouldn’t be a good idea to play this together. But he plays the investigating judge.” “Physically, he fit the role very well.” added the actress to TF1, “He was to be part of the cast, but when TF1 came into production, they opted for a French actor for the role of Fred.” An idea which she welcomes: “It’s very good like that. I think it would have been special for us to shoot very intense scenes during the day and return in the evening as if nothing had happened..”