Fabian Wolfrom talks about his future in It All Begins: "I want a more challenging project" (NOT INCLUDING)

Louis Guinot has split from Charlène (Pola Petrenko), has more respectful relations with his mother, Claire Guinot (Catherine Marchal), and has found his way as a teacher at the institute. At the end of a loop?

No, even if I have the impression that he’s still in the same cycle… Contrary to all expectations, Louis is highly appreciated by his students, which is not likable but makes him more humane, more thoughtful than we thought. But it’s much better, I think it gives it credibility.

He looks calmer than before…

I had a hard time in this direction… On the love side, there is a roller coaster. He broke up with Charlene but they will go through chemical proof of body and soul…or they won’t (laughs)! In any case, he continues to teach, at least until the end of the school year. And then we’ll see.

Is it difficult to portray such a character?

Any day-to-day shooting is cumbersome… Louis is often angry, nervous, threatening, and aggressive, if less often than before. This sport. I had underestimated the investment of energy and time required to produce a daily newspaper. I tried to do it with good intentions and a little bit of imagination.

Do you feel a certain tiredness?

I’m just trying to find a new lease of life.

What other projects inspire you?

Everything (smiles)! Here it all begins lack of action and horizon. My open and ambitious fantasy is a project with action in the mountains. I want to meet people, learn something, travel, be at the service of a more challenging and meaningful project.

You also gave fencing and wrestling lessons…

yes but before Here it all begins while I still have time. I am very happy to be featured in this daily drama and I enjoy playing Louis Guinot regularly. But I need to feed on other things so that this character does not get tired and I do not get tired.

Among your upcoming projects bardot, France 2 biography.

Filmed in 2022, should be released in spring, not February as advertised don’t touch my TV (C8) – The producers of Bardot didn’t even know about it (laughs)! To my great surprise and great pleasure, I play Sacha Distel.

Why such a surprise?

Because I don’t look like him physically. I remember the cast. I pushed the door and Daniele Thompson (with Christopher Thompson, co-director of this miniseries, editor’s note) He wanted me to smile. I did and I saw some light in your eyes. He said to me, “Okay, you’re doing Sacha Distel.”

Where are your projects in theater and especially in play? I will be a giant Is it announced for 2023?

There are producers and a director, my friend Jean-Philippe Bêche. We were going to present it in Avignon, but eventually it will be in Paris. A study of the beginning of James Dean’s career, his key questions, and his demons just before he was thrust into stardom. This is the period when he struggled in New York and was unable to make the plans he wanted to make.

Is it a topic that particularly affects you these days?

(After a pause) The one who doesn’t say a word is satisfied…

How do you feel on a theater stage?

Less framed than a daily drama, even with some staging. It’s different because it’s not the same people, the same projects, the same goals or problems. It’s almost incomparable, like putting two different sports on the same level.

Is it the “sans-net” side that draws you to the theater?

The shooting of a newspaper is also very fast, and at times it presents this spontaneous aspect of the theatre, which allows for a freedom previously unimaginable.

Do you have any movie projects?

I tried it for a Paramount Pictures movie about the 1936 Olympics in Los Angeles, which is a bad role, a French fencing champion – a sport I do a lot. I actually thought it was fake until I walked through the studio door (laughs). I also missed a role in an international production about resistance. The shooting schedule did not fit Here it all begins. This series has many advantages, but there are some disadvantages.

Does the example of Clément Rémiens currently playing basketball in the north of France inspire you?

Clément and I are very similar, but I think his choice is more radical than mine. We’re not the same age, we don’t have the same desires… Even though I don’t know him very well, I have great respect for him. Being like him, no, that’s not the idea at the moment.

Do you have any other ongoing projects?

I’m starting a feature film project with a friend. A uchronia in the post-World War I steampunk universe, as if the conflict continued but with technological innovations that didn’t exist at the time. I’m going to make a movie about the Resistance at Vercors. It is an intellectual and physical phenomenon that fascinates me and takes me out of my mood in the kitchen. Even though I am not directing it, I am taking the initiative of this film.

Why don’t you want to go behind the camera?

I don’t dare yet because it’s a completely different profession than mine. I can change my mind. But I followed the same logic as most of my classmates: Instead of waiting for the perfect project, let’s create it.

You were on the jury of Les P’tits As du Casting (which brings together a group of kids to teach them how to go through a casting in real situations) at the 2023 Luchon TV Festival. How was the experience?

it was great! The principle is to put children in a role-playing position, that is, to ask them to present a text of their choice in front of a camera, to give technical or more personal advice on how to do it. We enriched each other.

For example, as a comedy teacher, did it make you want to pass it on to others?

I discovered the extent of pedagogy’s challenge, but also the great joy it can represent. Some were very fair, some less… It’s exciting and puts a lot of things into perspective. Some are more comfortable than me or others in this very difficult exercise, the casting where you are surrendered to the most complete subjectivity.

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Pauline Hohoadji