TF1 broadcasts Monday evening the telefilm "Liés pour la vie", a feature film adapted from the novel of the same name by Laetita Milot, revealed by her role of Mélanie in "Plu belle la vie".
The actress, who plays the main character of the film adapted from her book, tells the microphone of "Culture Médias" some filming secrets.
INTERVIEW
He is one of the main faces of French TV fiction in recent years.
The actress Laetitia Milot, who made a name for herself in the role of Mélanie in
Plus belle la vie
, is on TF1 Monday evening with her TV movie
Liés pour la vie
.
The actress plays Lucie, a young woman champion horse who finds herself paraplegic after a serious motorcycle accident where she was hit by a driver who fled.
But she is also at the origin of the screenplay:
Bound for Life
is indeed an adaptation of her novel of the same name.
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Author, actress and screenwriter
In this TV movie, the character of Lucie has to relearn to ride a horse with her handicap and falls in love with a man met in the hospital, Marc.
But this man is actually the driver who knocked her down.
What she obviously does not know.
The TV adaptation is faithful to the novel by Laetitia Milot.
The actress did not just play the leading role: she kept a very close eye on the script.
"The screenplay has been worked on for more than two years and several writers have gone over it", specifies Laetitia Milot at the microphone of Europe 1. "TF1 decided that if it did not please the production, or me, they would not. They weren't going. We wanted to take the same direction as the book, even if 400 pages can't be summed up in 90 minutes. You have to make sacrifices. "
"I thought I was going to be able to become a rider by snapping my fingers"
The final scenario focuses, in particular, on the fusion of the rider with his horse.
But you still have to know how to ride a horse, which was not the case with Laetitia Milot.
Out of the question for the actress and author to call on an understudy.
So she had to learn and prepare physically, in just one month.
"At first, I was upset, because I thought I was going to be able to become a horse rider by snapping my fingers, but you can't. It's a job," she recalls. “First, I had to become a rider. And second, I had to be able to ride the horse while being disabled. I couldn't lead a horse with my arms and legs, you can imagine although doing it without the use of the legs was more than a challenge! " Laetitia Milot finally managed to play all the cavalry scenes herself. The result is to be discovered this Monday evening in the TV movie
Liés pour la vie
, broadcast at 9:05 p.m. on TF1.