“The tension was permanent”: Doria Tillier looks back on her “super stressful” years as Miss Weather

Awarded at the La Rochelle Fiction Festival, the series “Iris” arrives on Canal+ on November 25. For six episodes, Doria Tillier, behind the series, will play a professor who is not afraid to say out loud what she thinks. The pitch? “Like everyone, Iris has a head. Only her head… is not exactly like everyone else’s. And neither is her mouth, which says things that other mouths don’t say. Her little- friend, her cousin, a wine merchant, a museum guard… The list of those she pushes to the limit grows every day. But ultimately, the first to suffer is Iris. When we don’t do anything like others, we find it far from the clichés…”. Interviewed by our colleagues from Paris Matchthe one who signed her first series spoke about this new project but also about her beginnings within the group.

Doria Tellier talks about her series

With this series, the actress wants to send a specific message. “If there is one, it would be to simply say what we think. I’m not even talking about political or other opinions. Just daily discussions, those which occupy 90% of our lives. When , every day, we are forced to lie, even if slight, it’s not very healthy and I don’t see why we would continue.”she said. On her character, Nicolas Bedos’ ex is full of praise: “Iris is the expression of my fantasy. She reveals what I would like to be able to be, what I sometimes prevent myself from doing because I don’t want to be looked at askance, whereas what I think is not out of place”.

Stressful start as Miss Weather

“I think about it with great fondness,” she admitted regarding her first steps on Canal+. And to detail: “I was very free and very happy. It was really great but also super stressful. I was sick for a year in the first season before each show”. “I was live on TV every evening to make people laugh. It was just a two and a half minute sketch, yet I put all my heart into it. In the morning, you arrived and you started from scratch. You had to have writes the pastille for 1 p.m., then learn the text and find the accessories…”she recalled.

Then Doria Tillier returns to her pleasure in the face of adrenaline but also to the fact that “the tension was permanent”. “With Bertrand Delaire, we wrote what we wanted. Having an elephant on set was the only request that was refused to me. But only because we were in the basement and the animal wouldn’t have been able to get through. in the freight elevator“, she concluded with a joke.