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This Thursday, November 28, 2024, the La Catrina bar, located on rue d’Aiguillon in the city center of Brest, is not welcoming customers but a filming event. Technicians arrived in the afternoon to install the decor. The actors, including Joey Starr and Clémentine Célarié, are expected at the start of the evening. Scenes will be filmed inside the business and outside, in the surrounding streets.

Season 3 of the series The replacementbroadcast on TF1, has been filming since November 18 in Brest and the surrounding area, from Plougastel-Daoulas to Conquet.

“Brittany has character, like Joey Starr’s character”

“We are all happy to be there,” says Michel Feller, the producer. It was he who suggested Brest as a base: “I know the city well, I filmed there Remember with Line Renaud in 2015.” The Belgian producer is full of praise for the city of Ponant: “She has a strong identity and it is open to the world. It is an interesting and amazing city, which has a history. »

“Brittany has his character and Joey Starr plays a man who does. » In the series, the actor, also a rapper, plays the character of Nicolas, an original and uncompromising French teacher.

Extras requested

For certain scenes, the production uses extras. Divi, a 31-year-old from Brest, was there on Tuesday November 19, mobilized from 2:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. He took on the role of a jogger at the Jardin des explorers in Recouvrance then that of a passer-by in the neighborhood of Kérigonan. “It was nice. We were able to chat a little with Joey Starr, he’s nice. He’s like on TV, a little raw! »

Filming is scheduled to wrap up on December 20. The team will then return to the Paris region. The series could be broadcast as early as this summer.

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