How did you come up with the idea for this series that you are playing but also co-authoring?
Kevin Adams: Daive Cohen, the screenwriter I worked with on The New Adventures of Aladdin (2015), told me about it for the first time. For years he had wanted a fiction that would play on a dual temporality. He imagined the story of this boy named Eliott, who heard about a site where it was possible to resell old email addresses. He sees this as an opportunity to earn some money and tries his luck. Then something magical happens: she starts communicating with her 11-year-old via email. What was initially just an unusual and fun experience will eventually become much more serious and dark. I immediately told him it was great! Then we started working on the first release and then very quickly we started developing with the TF1 teams.
Tell us about Eliott…
He is a boy without much ambition. He lives with his sister Olivia, is fine in his little routine. When he gets the opportunity to change a detail of his past to help her, he does so without considering the consequences of his decision. I really wanted to embody it because he is the only one who does not move between different realities. Unlike the others, he is aware of what is going on. He’ll realize that his first life wasn’t so bad after all.
From the opening scene, this spatio-temporal error is serious, dramatic, even…
Yes, after a while Eliott will lose control. He will not stop waking up to new lives and new realities. Everything will go in a loop, and that’s what we wanted: to present an array that mixes types. I don’t like when fiction is confined to a particular box: this investigation, this is a thriller, this is suspense. Is this how we classify our lives? NO !
Isn’t it schizophrenic to play the same character who experiences different gifts?
Yes, especially since Eliott will gradually sink into madness and discover new versions of himself each time: sometimes he gets more stupid, more confident, or more stingy. It was fun for me to play. As an actor, it’s rare to be able to show this range of acting in one and the same cut.
You haven’t acted in a drama for a long time. It took a project of this magnitude to bring you back?
A lot has been offered for the M6, TF1, and even Netflix in recent years. I didn’t see what to bring each time. But as a die-hard Back to the Future fan, I couldn’t refuse @ coming! In addition, we are already developing a second season.
If you could talk to your adolescent version, what would you say?
Nothing ! You’ll see, that’s exactly the lesson to be learned from this series.
Avenir: Monday, February 27 at 21:10 TF1
INTERVIEW AMANDINE SCHERER
Source: Programme Television
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