- Presented as "young parents who insure", Camille and Nicolas are in the casting of Large Families: Life in XXL on TF1.
- In this new program, broadcast from Monday to Friday, the couple reveals their daily life with their five children.
- Interviewed by 20 Minutes , they explain why they agreed to participate in the program, and how they adapted to the shooting.
Journalists sometimes work in difficult circumstances, reporting in remote corners of the world or defying the weather. We did an interview with Camille and Nicolas, parents of five children, and our eardrums still remember it. If 20 Minutes was able to speak with them, it is because they appear in the casting of Familles numerous: la vie en XXL , the new daily program of TF1 launched at 5:15 pm from Monday. Between leaving school and soccer training, the Santoro family took a few minutes to reconsider this unique experience for them.
Nicolas is 31 years old and works in the police force. Camille is a 27-year-old esthetician. Both are the happy (but busy) parents of five children, including one and a half year old twins at the time of filming. Last year, an agency came to them to tell them about the plan for a program around large families. "Forget it, we're not going to do that," Camille first thinks before being convinced by her husband. "I was the one who told him it could be fun," explains Nicolas. We learned about the background of the program and we were convinced that the goal was to send a benevolent message to large families. "
A mother at 17 for the first time, Camille at 27 is already, with her husband Nicolas, at the head of a tribe of 5 children! 👏👶
Discover the Santoro family in #FamillesNombreuses: Life in XXL, from Monday July 6 from Monday to Friday at 5:15 pm! pic.twitter.com/35AXso2cby
During the day, and even at night
Seduced by the idea, the two parents fill out a form in which they describe their family and record a video. Bingo, they manage to seduce the production. But the biggest task remained: welcoming the teams at home. The program, shot between September and December 2019, was obviously not invited to the Santoro table every night. Three days a week, a small team of a cameraman, a sound engineer and the editor-in-chief came to film the life of the family, in particular the most important events such as Halloween, Christmas and birthdays.
The usually millimeter organization of the Moselle family was somewhat disturbed by the recording of the program. "We would try to put only the equipment of the filming crew in a place so that it would not be touched by the children," recalls Nicolas. “It was very exhausting but it was a very humanly rich adventure, it went very well. It was good fatigue, ”adds Camille.
In addition to capturing certain sections of their lives, Camille and Nicolas also had to answer the team's questions, facing the camera. For that, it was necessary to find the ideal moment, the calmest of the day… It thus took place at night! “We were waiting for the children to go to bed. We had to succeed at bedtime, especially the little ones, ”says Nicolas. "Sometimes, we have the impression that we cry but in fact we yawn," jokes Camille.
"We don't go too far in our privacy"
Uncomfortable at the start of filming, parents now consider the cameras to be part of their furniture. However, they were able to put the barriers necessary to protect their privacy. "We don't go too far in our intimacy, there are things that we don't show either", underlines Nicolas, specifying that it was the film crew that adapted to their lives, and not the other way around.
Also broadcast as a bonus every Friday on TFX, the couple sees the show as revenge. Judged in the past for having children from the age of 17 and 21, Large families: life in XXL is an opportunity for them to pass a beautiful message. "From the moment you step out of the mold, the judgments are sometimes insistent and the critics difficult to hear," says Camille. "Our message is not to say" Make children at 17 "but it shows that we can and that it can go well", concludes Nicolas.
And they give proof over the weeks, whether during a restaurant outing or when the little mouse passes for Nino, 7 years old. We also learn that the ticket is bigger if you put raclette cheese under your pillow. We keep the tip for later.
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