"" Rebecca "freed me as an actress," says Anne Marivin

A psychological thriller where we doubt everything except the talent of Anne Marivin!

In

this Thursday at 9:05 p.m. on TF1, free adaptation of the British series

by Didier Le Pêcheur, the actress plays a police captain who decides to resume service after a long depression when her husband (Benjamin Biolay) leaves her.

While investigating a series of murders that resemble the ones she investigated a few years ago, she discovers that one of the victims is her husband's mistress.

The catch?

Rebecca is the victim of a blackout, the type where she can wake up next to a corpse after a big white ...

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met at Séries Mania the luminous Anne Marivin who plays this very dark role.

Did you know the series "Marcella" before accepting the role of Rebecca?

Not at all !

I read the script before watching the

series

.

I had a big a priori on the fact of going to seek an original creation and to remake it.

What I liked here is that there is a real revisit of the original series.

I'm very different from Anna Friel, who plays

, and I thought I could take this character somewhere else.

The character's journey is insane.

I had never been asked to play such a complex, intense and hard character.

How would you describe your character Rebecca?

It is not easy!

She is a woman, a mother, married for years, who has been a very good investigator in the criminal brigade.

She has been on sick leave for five years following a tragedy.

At the start of the series, we meet a woman who can no longer cope, in a long depression.

Her husband put the children in boarding school because of this.

And we're going to come back and get her because she investigated a series of murders a few years ago and had a very strong, almost obsessive, conviction about a person, and potentially, there would have been new murders of the same killer.

She will therefore start working again and at the same time, her husband leaves her… She is a very complicated character to condense, very difficult to summarize.

At the start of the series, she appears to be extremely lonely ...

What isolates him is the fact of having black holes, absences.

It must be horrible not to remember what we did.

She only remembers one thing, which is that when she wakes up, she knows that it was brutal and violent.

She must mourn the couple she forms with Julien, played by Benjamin Biolay ...

In

, I only saw a couple who were torn apart in aggression, violence, perversity and manipulation. I couldn't see the love that there had been between them. With Benjamin, we said to ourselves that we have to see this, that we understand why she clings to him. He is more advanced than she is in mourning and the breakdown of the family clan. With Benjamin, we have very hard scenes together. We both thought, without telling each other, of a director we really like, Cassavetes. With Gena Rowlands, he was able to film scenes of couples, shouting, with a drought, and yet, it was magnificent. It was our inspiration… Even if we haven't reached this level, let's stay where we are! This couple is tough, bitter, but extremely interesting.

How did the collaboration with Benjamin Biolay go?

Benjamin is an interim actor.

He only comes to play when he wants to come.

There he really wanted.

I had a partner who was very curious about what was happening on the set, who really wanted to share and be part of the collective.

When he is in the period of musical creation, he is very solo.

The breakup scene is very intense.

Do we get out of such scenes unscathed at the end of the day of filming?

Yes, in this scene, there is something of the order of supplication: if you leave me, I will die.

Her partner abandons her and it is unbearable for her.

Fortunately, I am not at all one of the actors who are still affected by what they have just played when they return home.

Over the five months of filming, what was difficult was the fatigue.

Rebecca is often in tears, constantly in turmoil… It is physically and psychologically tiring.

When I get home, what makes me feel good is that my two kids aren't interested in what mom is playing, what interests them is what she's planning for dinner.

It helps me a lot, it immediately brings back to a Cartesian reality!

After I will hide you, only after

, I really wanted a comedy!

Rebecca also seems to have troubled relations with the commissioner played by Clotilde Courau ...

Ah, it's funny that you saw that!

This does not exist at all in

.

This is a proposal that Clotilde Courau made, a little in a submarine.

I realized that during the shooting, she hadn't told me about it.

I realized that his character was very affected by his relationship with Rebecca.

I said to myself: "It's funny, I have the impression that she is a little in love with Rebecca".

There is an ambiguity between them, no sorority.

It is a wish of Clotilde.

I found it very interesting that she went towards that.

Rebecca finally forms an investigator duo with Rafif Abderrafi, camped by Samir Guesmi…

With Samir, we don't have the same way of working at all.

I need to work a lot beforehand, Samir is more instinctive.

He is a prodigious, hypercharismatic and hyper-interesting actor.

I was very happy to work with him, but, I don't know if it's insidiously or unconsciously, there were times when we had misunderstandings as Anne and Samir, not as as Raf and Rebecca.

I never succeeded in knowing whether, unconsciously, we had not imposed ourselves to be in the same type of relationship as Raf and Rebecca or if it was because we are actors with a rather different approach to work and that sometimes there is little friction.

Anyway, I find it helps for

.

Did this shoot change you professionally?

This is the first time that I have been given the opportunity to explore a character over five months. Being able to explore a character over a lot more time allowed me to let go, to trust myself and to let go of things that I didn't dare go on as an actress. When you receive a script, there is always a sequence or two that you fantasize about. I had a lot on

: with the children, blackout, hypnosis… I gained much more confidence in myself thanks to the benevolent gaze of Didier le Pêcheur, my partners and the technical team.

It freed me!

I was more daring and I felt more free to express things.

It taught me that I was able as an actress to go places, to convey feelings that I had never experienced as a woman.

You speak of desire for comedy, what are your future projects?

After

, I was offered a lot of series, but I took a little break.

I had a very interesting experience in

by Akim Isker.

I play the mother of a true autistic.

I loved this experience, because I met Theophile, this boy who lives in his world.

Little by little, we had to be enthroned with him, it was fascinating.

And right now, I'm waiting for something as exciting as

 !

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