Guest of "Media Culture" on the occasion of her return to the theater, the actress Véronique Genest returned to her quarrel with TF1 about her canceled participation in the prime-time access series "Tomorrow belongs to us".
INTERVIEW
Véronique Genest was for a time announced in the TF1 series
Demain belongs to us
, but the collaboration never happened.
The actress, who resumes the performances of the play
Betty's Family
at the theater la Bruyère, from September 22, returns to this failure at the microphone of "Media Culture".
Not without a certain anger against the front page.
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A change learned through the Internet
The heroine of Julie Lescaut recalls in fact that she had obtained guarantees from the chain.
"I didn't want to do a daily one, and then I saw the producer who insisted very heavily and gave me the assurance that I would have the scripts two months in advance", she recalls. .
"Then the producer was fired and they continued to talk to me in the illusion of this role. Until I learned from the Internet that it was not me who would play," says the actress.
Who nevertheless assures to have no regrets.
"I certainly wouldn't have done it, because the role had changed a lot and wouldn't have suited me."
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If Véronique Genest is bitter today, it is because of the attitude of TF1 after this cancellation.
“Instead of saying they're sorry, they get angry with me saying that I don't have to [recount what happened in the papers]. But I repeat: they made me lose nine months of my life. I gave up a play [for this series] and if in our profession we do not plan a year in advance, we end up with our mouths in the water. than to die with your mouth open. "
The actress concludes with a message addressed to TF1: "There is a moment when things have to be said. And we have to stop making others feel guilty for saying things."