In "Diana Boss", eloquence and flow against sexism and racism

Having a good flow can be useful a few months before the Bar exam!

France.tv Slash puts

online this Friday

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This series created by Marion Séclin and co-written with Niels Rahou (

) follows Malika, 23 years old (Moon'A), a brilliant student promised to a career as a lawyer during the day and who continues the

of rap after dark, under the pseudonym of Diana Boss.

In these diametrically opposed worlds both ruled by men, will she succeed in imposing her voice with her only weapons, her verve and her words?

“I created a character that I would have liked to see growing up to give me the openness to realize that we don't have to be essentialized as a woman, and as a non-white woman. », Explains Marion Séclin, whom

met at the CanneSéries festival.

"The beauty and the violence of these battles"

It all started when Malika landed an internship in the prestigious MCB firm, headed by the condescending Me Morel (Julien Boisselier), thanks to her father, Youssef (Akim Chir), who officiated there as a handyman.

At the same time, she is spotted by Boozer, MC of his own radio show, who offers to join a rap contest, at the risk of tarnishing the reputation of the law firm.

To familiarize herself with the world of rap, Marion Seclin spent "hours and hours watching battles and hearing the beauty and violence of these battles", while "a lawyer, friend of the producers has proofread ”the script to ensure the credibility of the forensic portion of the fiction.

"Two economically totally opposed arenas"

Why two worlds seemingly at opposite ends?

“I wanted two economically opposed arenas.

One is bourgeois, considered elitist, where pursuing studies and having a career is reserved for a completely white elite, because they are privileged, who have the means and the chance to access them.

The other, in quotes based on merit, where it is not the number of years of study that counts, where the work can be paid, more popular, but not exempt from a form of sexism, ”explains Marion Séclin .

Malika will try to find her place and to impose herself in these two worlds.

"She realizes that being a woman poses a problem for her when she enters the professional world and that of rap", says the creator.

"The problem of intersectionality"

Malika has a sort of "intolerance of helplessness" and injustice.

"She wants to defend things and realizes that she can do it in a lot of different ways," says Marion Seclin.

And to clarify: “Through eloquence, both from the rap world and from the right world, Malika can express her opinions, heal her wounds and try to make things happen.

"

Malika is the victim of a lot of discrimination, because she is a woman, because she is a non-white woman, because she is a non-white woman from a working-class background.

"The problem with intersectionality is that it is not racism on the one hand, sexism on the other, but that it is a kind of super-villain", summarizes Marion Séclin.

For sexism, Marion Séclin was inspired by the difficulties she experienced in her career to be "heard", "to listen" and "to have a place".

For racism, she appealed to the experience of close non-white friends "who have experienced racism directly and daily".

In order to avoid “

 ”

at all costs 

, it was “reread by the people concerned.

"

"Still full of discrimination"

"The proof that the world and France are still full of discrimination is that I am a white woman and that it is I who writes this series", she laments, hoping to be "the first step so that the next series that talks about this will be written by a woman concerned with issues of racial discrimination.

"

Diana Boss

“tells a story that is not told enough.

Moon'A told me that she has never seen a girl like her in the picture.

It's scandalous, I dare not imagine.

I don't know how one feels at ease in a world where one cannot see each other, ”relates the screenwriter.

"We have the right to forgiveness"

Marital rape, sexual assault, violence against women… Marion Séclin tackles topics that are much discussed in the militant feminist milieu.

"I looked for cases which could titillate the need for justice and the impotence of Malika", relates Marion Séclin.

Diana Boss

does not turn to the

"too super women" vs "not too nice guys".

The series aspires to "explain why the system and society make us the people that we are", but also to send a positive message: "The fact that we have the right to change and to learn, that we has the right to forgiveness for having been people who made mistakes at one time.

"

And to explain: “As a white, I made mistakes of internalized racism, which I did not realize.

It was by receiving reproaches, deciding to learn that I learned.

"

No bad guys, no good guys, but deeply human characters: "in the same way that I have the right to be very feminist and to have a daddy, who says sexist things every now and then, and that Just because I love someone who says sexist stuff doesn't mean it has to undo my whole process.

Existence is complex.

There are realities, but we must at least talk about them, ”she concludes.

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