After supporting roles in the television series "Commissaire Magellan", "Crimes parfaits", and "Joséphine, ange garde", the former television host Sandrine Quétier landed the main role of "Murder in the Jura", broadcast on Saturday evening on France 3. The opportunity for her to return to this turning point in her career on Europe 1 on Friday.

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In 2017, Sandrine Quétier ended her career as a television host. After presenting shows like "50 minutes inside" or "Dancing with the stars", she decided to embark on an acting career. Since 2018, she has played secondary characters in the television series of France 3 Commissioner Magellan and Crimes Parfaits , and in Joséphine, Guardian Angel , on TF1. On Saturday evening, spectators find her as the main interpreter of Murder in the Jura , on France 3.

"I said to myself: 'I mustn't miss it'"

France 3 offered him the role. A "super surprise" for Sandrine Quétier, as she explains in "Culture Media" on Friday. "I said to myself: 'I mustn't miss myself'. And I said 'yes' because I read the script right away and I found the rough side, a little dense, broken, rather nice, of the character, "she explains.

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In this new episode of Murder at ... , Sandrine Quétier plays Captain Anna Buisson who is investigating the mysterious murder of a woman found at home surrounded by white flowers and who is going to have to work with a captain from the Lyonnais gendarmerie. in flu. The actress prepared for this role "at home" with a coach. "I knew the scenario roughly by heart and then we dissected it and above all I tried to imagine a life for my character outside of the scenario. What does Anna Buisson take in the morning at breakfast already? How does she live? What was her childhood? ", she explains.

"I don't want to watch TV anymore"

She is delighted to have worked with a "very kind and friendly team". "They can also say 'it's the girl who comes from TV' and not at all, they were great," she notes. Sandrine Quétier worked her role like a relentless to embody it at best: "I always have the little needy side that I had on TV, so I learned my role by heart."

The former host absolutely does not regret this shift to comedy, which was carefully considered for two years before making this decision. If she still receives proposals for television animation, she says: "I no longer want to do TV, in any case, not in what I am offered. I think I have come to the end in entertainment". And if it returns to animation one day, it will be for something different. "If I have to come back, it may be more of a mag, a doc, or a talk show," says Sandrine Quétier.