Talking about breast cancer in "Plus Belle La Vie" is "obvious"

Cécilia Hornus, alias Blanche in "Plus Belle La Vie", since August 30, 2004 -

• Plus Belle La Vie

  tackles the subject of breast cancer this week with a plot around a quintet of actresses.

• Rare enough to underline it, a real association, in this case Ruban Rose, is mentioned in the series.

• The actress Cécilia Hornus, who is its ambassador, returns to the importance of this script.

The Marseillaises make their show.

This week,

closes its story devoted to burlesque.

Launched a month ago, the intrigue around the self-confidence of the characters of Blanche and Claire takes a different turn today with the revelation of the breast cancer of Lila, the choreographer.

This is something to shake up the emblematic women of the Mistral district, who decide to put their feather stuff back on as part of a burlesque show in support of the Ruban Rose.

The association, sponsored by Cécilia Hornus for a decade, insists on the importance of early detection.

Every two years, an invitation to have a free mammogram is sent to all women over 50.

An appointment that is only honored by half of them.

By carving out a place of choice in the France 3 series, Cécilia Hornus hopes that the association will gain visibility.

The actress, present since the very first episode of

broadcast sixteen years ago, returns for

on this initiative, its integration into the series, and the importance of talking about it in a public service series .

How did the partnership between Ruban Rose and the series come about?

Did you come up with the idea?

At the beginning, no, but it is true that the channel knows very well that I have been sponsor of the Pink Ribbon for ten years.

It is not always easy for the authors to insert subjects other than those they foresee in the editorial way of advancing the characters and the stories of the Mistral.

But I still had that hope.

I am rewarded, and I find it a great process because the Pink Ribbon is very important, breast cancer affects one in eight women.

The link with the association is made thanks to an intrigue around the burlesque show ...

It is an intrigue which defends feminine values, of solidarity, it was a very good opportunity to highlight this association which is really important.

It was already planned before confinement but the plot has been shifted.

The producer Géraldine Gendre told me about it, I was immediately enthusiastic, and what was very interesting is that we created this quartet with four generations of women with Fabienne Carat, Annie Grégorio, Marie Hennerez and myself.

What is beautiful is that four generations are put forward because breast cancer affects all generations of women.

The climax of the plot is the burlesque dance that you offer.

How did you prepare for it?

This is part of the challenges that we give to the actors.

According to the plots, we have several things to play, in drama, comedy or more sporting things as we can address them in the bonuses.

When we learned that there was going to be a burlesque show, Guénaël Dumur was approached because she had already done one.

We worked upstream for a month in Paris, we rehearsed a lot every five.

She really adapted to each of us, there was a lot of creativity and good humor.

It was a great challenge and a way to bond between us.

I know Fabienne [Carat] very well but I knew very little Annie [Grégorio] personally. 

Beyond the intrigue around the burlesque, how will breast cancer prevention be approached in the series?

Our characters will decide to stop the burlesque for various reasons, Samia will be a little harassed from the point of view of the media after the publication of a video, it was also interesting to treat this subject.

It's going to scare us and it's Lila, played by Guénaël Dumur, who will pump us up to speed, telling us that it's important to accept yourself, to show that you are happy to live.

She was touched by cancer and she got away with burlesque and the Ruban Rose association.

She will push us to do this show, the profits of which will be donated to the association.

It is the highlighting of the association through his character.

This must have happened for the Telethon before, but it's very, very rare to speak of an association in the series.

She is really named, we talk about her several times.

On our side, on communication, we mirror everything that we can put on our social networks which are very followed by the fans.

It is a beautiful highlight and I am very proud of it.

The whole plot is finally approached from a feel-good angle ...

We wanted to develop the side of hope.

Le Ruban Rose is an association that strongly advocates prevention and screening.

This side is very important because when cancer is detected very early, it can be cured, you can get out of it.

Many tools are also in place for the post-illness.

Life has to go on but it's complicated, so it was great to approach it from that angle.

We imagine that it was important for you to talk about the association in a series as popular as

Plus Belle La Vie

 ?

Plus Belle La Vie

is broadcast on a public service channel that has supported us from the start.

We have had a panel of intrigues, for sixteen years, which are police and romance intrigues, but also a lot of societal intrigues which speak to the French, with disability, unemployment, illness, harassment, homosexuality.

Thanks to the series, and even if it's entertainment, we manage to talk about strong subjects like breast cancer and what the Pink Ribbon does.

The lighting is bound to be magnificent because you are followed by millions of viewers every night.

It's really the point of this series to defend that.

It's also multigenerational in terms of the characters and the audience watching us.

The impact is important so it was obvious that

had to promote the association.

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