On the occasion of the International Day of Disabled People, Tuesday, France 3 airs a new fiction "From one world to another". Pascal Demolon and Anne Marivin, the main actors of this TV movie, confided in the preparation of their role at the microphone of Philippe Vandel.

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Tuesday, December 3rd is Disabled Persons Day, which aims to promote the rights and well-being of people with disabilities in all spheres of society. Associating with this day, France 3 program Tuesday night From one world to another , a TV movie in which Pascal Demolon embodies a man of 50 who, following an accident, becomes paraplegic. After a year of rehabilitation, he reintegrated his family and must manage this new life with his wife, embodied by Anne Marivin, and his two children. Guests of the program Culture Médias, the two actors explained how they prepared their role.

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"There is an energy, a life force"

"We shot in a rehabilitation center in Capbreton, obviously, I'm not going to tell you that it's great," says Anne Marivin. "They all come out of a year, two years, three years of a real ordeal, but there is an energy, a life force that makes life do not stop.Life does not stop because 'we become disabled.'

The two actors met many people with disabilities to better understand their role. The character of Pascal Demolon finds himself surrounded by benevolence and has trouble adapting to his new life. The actor remembers: "They talked a lot about life, about the feeling that they sometimes had to be viewed with compassion, and they do not want it at all." Without demagogy, they feel they can not only watch the others but life at the same height, and that's what's extraordinary. "

"We do not stop being a couple because we are handicapped"

His meeting with a young surfer of about 19 years marked him very much. "She found herself severely disabled and deprived of the happiness she had to surf at first," says the comedian. But he was moved by the strength of the girl. "Her desire was so important that she had a board adapted to go back to sea." At one point, I saw a small metal part on the prosthesis that she had on her arm, I asked her what it was and she told me says it's a bottle opener for beer bottles. "

"From one world to another" also addresses topics rarely seen in a fiction on this theme as the financial cost of a disability but also the sexuality of people with disabilities. "It was very important not to ignore the subject of sexuality because we do not stop being a man and being a couple because we are disabled," says Anne Marivin.