15 years ago, Laurent Ournac landed on television screens by playing Laurent Fortin in the show My incredible fiancé.

A "crazy professional adventure", for which he was selected thanks to his talents for improvisation.

On Europe 1, Thursday, the actor returned to the program that launched his career.

INTERVIEW

“At the time, I was told 'you have gained ten years in your career',” says Laurent Ournac.

The actor, currently at the Renaissance theater in the play

Endangered Species

, was the guest of Europe 1, Thursday.

The opportunity to come back to the program that launched his career on television, the program 

My incredible fiancé

.

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An actor who had never done TV

"It was crazy to give the keys of a show to a young actor who has never done anything on TV", admits Laurent Ournac, who evokes "an incredible experience". In July 2005, he played the role of Laurent Fortin in this program presented as a reality show consisting of bringing together two candidates to form an improbable couple, by promising them the sum of 100,000 euros if they succeed in having their marriage accepted by their respective family. The comedy was then based on the fact that the bride herself was unaware that the man supposed to be her future husband was in fact a comedian. An actor who made him live a real hell over gags written with the authors of the show. For the game, it was his improvisational skills that made the difference.

"A crazy professional adventure"

"I was doing a lot of improvisation theater at the time," says Laurent Ournac.

"The sequences were written with the authors and the production to know what we were going to make her live (the future bride, Adeline Toffoli,

editor's note

)".

Once the plot was written, it was necessary to start improvising, continues the actor.

"Remember what we had said, take the information it gave, and bring it in the direction we wanted to take it according to the different stages to pass".

"It is true that my improvisation course was an additional card to be taken beyond the physical and the humor", concludes Laurent Ournac, who evokes "a crazy professional adventure". With

My Incredible Fiancé

, TF1 reached record audiences. The wedding episode, which aired at 11 p.m., peaked to more than 10 million viewers.