“I know what it's like to be alone and different,” says Muriel Robin.

A thriller driven drastically by two leading women.

a 4-episode miniseries broadcast this Thursday at 9:05 p.m. on TF1, tells the story of Suzanne Brunet (Muriel Robin), a home nurse, to find her daughter, Julie, who disappeared several years ago.

A void that she fills with alcohol ... Until the day Suzanne comes across a press clipping in which she thinks she recognizes Julie.

She gives up everything to go to the small village mentioned in the article.

Its arrival arouses the suspicion of the inhabitants.

Especially since, shortly after her arrival, a teenager disappears.

Only Gabrielle Varan (Marilou Berry) seems determined to shed light on these disappearances.

At the La Rochelle TV Fiction Festival, where

was awarded best 52-minute series, Muriel Robin evokes her role of mother courage, in which she is absolutely overwhelming.

What made you want to play Suzanne Brunet in “Mon Ange”?

The loneliness of this woman, her determination, the fact that she disturbs her, her courage ... Since I was a child, the courage of women overwhelms me. I don't know how they manage to carry an 18 kg child on one side, the stroller on the other, and at the same time, be pretty, intelligent, work and think about filling the fridge. And to fight, even if it is for things less serious than in My Angel. Suzanne fights alone. Her daughter is missing, her husband is gone, she has become an alcoholic. The people in her neighborhood must be thinking, here's the crazy woman who still thinks her daughter is alive. My Angel comes to lift the veil on village secrets, family secrets and the unspoken. A village where things are frozen and where no one wants things to happen. Suzanne is going to shake it all up. She disturbs, and I love people who disturb!

We feel that this character resonates particularly in you ...

This character has resonances, because I lived in the provinces and I know what it is to be alone and different.

I was looking for my sexuality… I was different, people talked about me, they looked at me differently.

I know what this loneliness is, I know it.

And then, I liked that she spoke little.

There are a lot of times when she doesn't speak.

This allows the viewer to put his emotion in these moments.

An emotion that is attributed to the actress.

I'm not saying the actress isn't doing anything!

But walking with your hands in your pockets and a certain determination makes a receptacle where the spectator can charge the character with what he is going through.

When Suzanne speaks, she says the essential ... When the cop, played by Marilou Berry, says to her: "Let me know if you are leaving the region", Suzanne replies: "There is no risk, I am looking for my daughter. That poses the character, right?

Completely, I felt that when I said it. You can push me out the window, I'll come in through the door. Suzanne saw the badge, saw the photo… She won't leave, even if it means dying of it. Seeing people like her with that strength, maybe it gives you strength.

Suzanne reminded me of Natascha Kampusch's mother who never stopped thinking "that her daughter was alive" ...

It's funny, because I missed it! She knew ?

That's what she said when her daughter was found ...

We are alone with that.

We must be criticized, people must say that we must stop hoping.

Suzanne's ex-husband, Patrick Chesnais, with whom I really enjoyed playing, keeps telling her: “Stop, you're crazy, you've been drinking.

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There is a clever game of mirrors between Suzanne, who is looking for her daughter, and Gabrielle, played by Marilou Berry, who is pregnant ...

This relationship was on paper.

Writing created this link.

Everything happened naturally on the set, we didn't rehearse.

We got together with Marilou Berry, strangely enough, even though we had only seen each other once.

We spent an evening together when she was, I think, about 12 years old.

She remembered it very well.

She had been touched and had fond memories of me.

I remember thinking to myself, “I really like this kid.

We had this little thing that created a bond.

On the set, I really discovered a great actress.

It has an intensity, a density, a humanity.

I had a lot of fun touring with her.

"Mon Ange" also addresses the taboo subject of female alcoholism ...

During a lunch with the UGC Fiction production with Karine Evrard, Franck Calderon and Négar Djavadi, the author of

, I was asked what themes interested me. That of female alcoholism was one of them. Female alcoholism deserves a full TV movie. Social alcoholism bears its name very badly, we should rename this universal alcoholism stashed under "come on, have a drink?" I know what I'm talking about, I've had glasses of it. I was, I think, a social alcoholic.

I know it's not that easy to get out of it. I think of those women with men who leave for a younger one, children who have grown up… and who find themselves alone. I'm not talking about alcoholism in a precarious situation, the one that interests me is the one in a correct environment, where when the children come, we hide the bottles behind the sofa… How do we get out of that? I see these women in the street, with gray teeth, rosacea. It upsets me, it is a sign of extreme loneliness. Every day we say to ourselves: “Tomorrow, I'll stop. Tomorrow never comes. Women return to the bistro less often to drink. She's really alone at home. We all have crutches in life: sugar, cigarettes, sex, etc.

“Jacqueline Sauvage”, “Mon Ange”… We see you regularly in the dramatic register, why not in comedies?

In my life, I have been offered two comedies.

to replace Valérie Lemercier, I was a second choice.

It is a proposition, without being one.

And twenty years later, Christian Clavier who offered me to play in the first film he was making [We don't choose our family].

If I don't do comedy, it's because in thirty years I have only received these two proposals.

While there is a bunch of them that come out every year.

This is not a refusal on my part.

I find it so phenomenal, incredible, crazy, crazy, violent, funny to cry not to have other combinations of comedies.

It's so much all we want that now I dare say it.

What would you like?

My desires ? Make movies, because I like the screen to be bigger than me. My example is Annie Girardot. For now, I have no choice. On TV, there are fewer comedies than in the movies. I do not refuse much, I have no proposals. With my wife, Anne, we created a production company. We're developing a comedy right now. I would like to do a dramatic comedy, I find that there is a lack of comedies for adults. A comedy where we laugh at the second à la De Funès, that no longer really exists. And as I get older, that's not what I want anymore. So, we are going to fend for ourselves and then the cinema, maybe in the years to come, we will only see me in the cinema. Who knows ? Who could have said that in the past thirty years, no one would ever see me at the movies? It was impossible.You can't make between 3,000 and 5,000 people every time you play on stage, be in some polls the funniest in France and not appear in any comedy? And yet, this is what happened! So who says that in the next thirty years, we're not going to have just me at the movies, when everyone does not care? I cried buckets, liters… There, I have a giggle.

It's incredible…

I turned 66 this year.

When Cédric Klapish offers me five days of shooting [on his next film entitled

], I am upset, I don't know if there are many actresses of my age who are upset for that.

I thank him.

He is very happy and says to me: “You are wonderful.

»It does me a lot of good to be chosen!

It would have really helped me to live, me, who had so much discomfort and doubts, that Klapish say to me from time to time: "You're great", "It's nice to work with you".

It was hard without them.

You were talking about Annie Girardot earlier, like you, she has always been very popular with the public ...

Yes, we have a great story with the public.

Like her, have you suffered from a lack of recognition of the profession?

At one point, they didn't choose me.

Annie, they took her hand and then let go.

Me, they did not take my hand.

I still have two hands, there is still time to take it from me!

That's what you have to say to yourself after you've cried for thirty years, smoked and drunk to forget all that.

We grow up, we mourn.

Tomorrow is tomorrow.

But it would give me great pleasure to be chosen and to be on these big screens where I love being so much.

If that happens, that would be good.

Can you tell us more about your projects with Anne?

We would like to produce or co-produce perhaps for a first time, to be a little more solid.

Interpret, yes.

Write, yes.

Realize, both of you.

We have already done this and it is working well, because we are very complementary.

Especially if I have a role in it, if I am in the image, I like someone to be my double behind the camera.

And then, I have my Kika!

Kika Ungaro, op 'conductor who shed the light on

, who also made Jacqueline Sauvage, has a formidable technical team.

We're going to move towards that, if I'm not too lazy.

Because I am not lazy, but I am lazy.

But, when I'm there, I'm there!

And I tend to work fourteen hours a day rather than being slack, but I have to be there.

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