Jean-Luc Reichmann returns with the 8th season of -
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From this Thursday, TF1 broadcasts the eighth unpublished season of "Léo Mattéï".
Since 2013, Jean-Luc Reichmann has played the title role there, that of a commander of a juvenile brigade in the south of France.
Léo Mattéï
is back on TF1.
From this Thursday, the channel broadcasts the 8th unpublished season of its detective series, carried by Jean-Luc Reichmann.
Since 2013, the animator has played the title role, that of a commander of a juvenile brigade in the south of France.
During three separate evenings, the hero will focus on new investigations related to the hold and the difficulty of freeing children and adolescents to speak.
Themes that are particularly close to the heart of Jean-Luc Reichmann.
We learned that you have Covid-19.
How are you ?
For twelve days, I was completely flat.
For over a year, we have really taken every precaution on the
sets
of
Léo Mattéï
and
12 Coups de midi
.
We have been exemplary from A to Z. And one Friday, the school calls you to tell you "closed classes".
I want to say that it is good that we closed the schools, because I think that the problem arose from there.
Three days later, I was in it, I had all the shoots canceled.
It's okay, because we are far enough ahead of what we had already put in the box for the daily.
But when you go into the tunnel, you don't know how you're going to get out.
Do you know when you will be able to resume filming?
I gave myself a little while.
I've been in turmoil for a good dozen days, I do the exams gradually, the blood tests, the scans of the lungs to find out what the consequences are.
I think that the protocol must be followed scrupulously, and I believe that it is urgent for people who have not yet been vaccinated - I am not in the age group - that everyone be.
I do not wish anyone what I have been through.
It has been a year since there has been an audience on the shows.
Are you hoping for spectators to return in September?
Everything that we have been able to project for a year and a half has not happened, so I prefer not to predict anything.
But we are all actually looking forward to getting back to life, that's the most important thing.
You return this Thursday in a new season of "Léo Mattéï".
Is this role still close to your heart?
More and more, in relation to the values that I try to defend on education, on children, on the fact of doing prevention at all levels knowing that the danger is everywhere.
It's been ten years since this series was created, and unfortunately I didn't think I'd be so much in the news ten years later.
When you see everything that is going on around children, the pitfalls and hold that there can be at any level.
The first evening [of the series] is spent in sports and swimming, the second in foster families with disabled children, and then the third in families and communities.
We find Yves Rénier, Annelise Hesme and Lou Jean, many
guests
have joined us this year.
We must obviously continue this fight against the grip.
It is time to let the children speak, we must listen to them.
It is very difficult to speak with a child or to make him speak.
When you're a father, there is nothing more complicated.
We can miss existential problems, everyday, at school, in the street ...
In these episodes, it is about predators that can be found in the close entourage of children and adolescents ...
We wanted to explore different universes each evening, to say that the danger is everywhere.
And the most deceitful, the most insidious in the story, is that it is not necessarily where you think.
The episodes of the first evening deal with harassment, pedocriminality, physical or psychological violence ... Problems that you wanted to resonate with the news?
We write these stories a year in advance and unfortunately, a year later, we see each time we are more and more in the news.
The stories we are thinking about, to my dismay, will still be true a year from now.
But the more we talk about it, the more we will bring our little stone to the building.
Is there an awareness process behind this series?
Obviously, we try to pay homage to the truth, however rotten it may be.
The series can also echo the Christian Quesada affair.
A case that has deeply upset you?
I spoke about it, it is no longer my story.
It is the story of justice.
Did you not feel anything when he was released from prison recently?
I cannot answer this question, I said I will no longer speak to a person who is no longer part of my life.
The second evening is centered around children with disabilities.
You got involved in associations that fight against the discrimination of these children.
Is it a theme that touches you personally?
I am in an association called Equilibr.
There are children who are different, who are mistreated, abandoned by couples who separate… I am a fighter for difference.
I also have one, I was born with a stain on my nose, they wanted to have it removed several times.
I resisted school as a teenager and later when I started watching TV.
I am for the respect of the difference, the respect of the handicap, I have a sister who is handicapped.
All of these factors put me on this path.
Education today is tomorrow's world.
Children with disabilities play in the episodes of the second evening.
Wasn't it too difficult to tackle this dark and tragic story which speaks in particular of abandonment?
We talked a lot with parents to ask if the children were able to handle the emotional load, saying that it was necessary to separate the fact that this is fiction and not reality.
It was very important for me to take this psychological step with the parents first.
I wanted to give the chance to these children who had never acted and who, from time to time, put out scenes, sequences which had not been written in the scenario.
It was so beautiful that we could not miss this truth, and we left it for editing.
These are magical and suspended moments.
It was overwhelming, there were technicians crying, it had never happened to me on a set.
Have you set a maximum number of seasons for “Léo Mattéï”?
Do you still have a lot to say about this series?
For now, I feel useful.
This media openness must also serve to free speech and to have a popular vision on these fallacious, insidious, deceitful phenomena, which are everywhere.
If this openness can make our eyes open a little more, that we talk about it and that we can release this word ...
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