Linda Hardy (Josephine, Guardian Angel): "Dancing with the stars helped me a lot to play the part of Charlotte."

More than a decade after A world of sweetness (2012), this is your second time joining the guardian angel Joséphine. How did your meeting with Mimi Mathy go?

Linda Hardy: The first time I only worked for four days. This time we shot together from start to finish. We had time to build a relationship. He is funny and generous. I was both a spectator and an actor.

Your character, Charlotte Dumas, is a choreographer raising her troubled daughter, Léa (Alicia Popov). What does his daughter blame him for?

Charlotte, who lives in Bordeaux, was forced to move to Paris when she broke up with her daughter’s father (Yann Sundberg). His daughter blames him for, among other things, tearing him from his Bordeaux ties.

Does this story resonate with your single mom?

I share the demand to respect the rules of life and values. This is how I raise my 13-year-old son, Andréa. So far things are going pretty well.

And you, what kind of youth were you?

I wasn’t a rebel, I became an afterthought. My brother was so much more. I had neither temperament nor desire. I chose to focus on my studies. I was very demanding of myself. The type who would go home in tears if I had gotten 15/20 instead of 18.

Have you always been this demanding?

Oftentimes, when you are strict with yourself, you expect the same attention from others. It’s a mistake because we don’t all have the same personality. It can pass for hardness. I did some work for myself. And I’m much cooler today.

This work on yourself included your participation in the program in 2019. dance with the stars ?

This experience helped me a lot in playing the role of Charlotte. I also learned a lot about my body by doing Danse avec les stars. But you are right: if dance is the school of rigidity and necessity, it is also the school of letting go. That’s why I agreed to join this adventure with dancer and choreographer Christophe Licata.

In this episode, you are the mother of a young girl with leukemia. What message would you like to give to those who are going through this ordeal?

Let them keep their hopes, medical advances are important today. And then continue to act, to live, despite the disease. I firmly believe that the mind plays a very important role in healing.

You are now on the verge of fifty. Does the prospect of aging scare you?

Getting old doesn’t scare me. On the other hand, continuing to be healthy is important to me. Menopause should stop being a taboo. We don’t ask the question to men over 50!

What are your projects?

I’m back Bugarach, a fantastic series for the France Télévisions platform and one that I can’t speak for Netflix yet (Supersex, biopic on Rocco Siffredi, editor’s note). I also have four theater proposals, but they haven’t been finalized yet.

Guardian angel Joséphine on Monday, June 26 at 9:10 PM on TF1

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