“Happy winners” with Audrey Lamy and Fabrice Eboué: what if winning the Loto was our worst nightmare?

Solène Delinger 3:00 p.m., March 15, 2024

INTERVIEW

Like every year, Louise, Paul and their two children go on vacation to the South of France.

And, like every year, Paul (Fabrice Eboué) passes through all the small roads where he drives at 30km/h to avoid paying the toll... Result: the whole family is tired of the endless journey, Louise (Audrey Lamy) in wants from her husband who, on top of that and always to save money, takes her on vacation to his parents.

“Money changes people”

Winning the Lottery would save this couple on the brink of collapse, on the verge of hitting each other because of their money problems.

One chance in 19 million... One tiny chance and their lives would change forever.

That summer, on the road to vacation, Paul found a forgotten Lotto ticket in his glove compartment.

A ticket worth... 5 million euros!

But, with Paul still a little behind, the ticket is about to expire.

He has ten minutes left to validate it in the nearest La Française des jeux center.

Paul then launches into a crazy race through the streets of Marseille, and goes completely into a tailspin.

“Money changes people, that’s for sure, because we live in a society of power struggles based on money,” analyzes Fabrice Eboué.

"In Paul's case, money takes him completely out of his reality. He is ready to do anything to show his wife that he is capable of achieving something. He seeks to regain his place in his family, to regain points of virility.

“They still have two children and they are in the red on the 10th of the month,” adds Audrey Lamy.

“I have never won the Lottery in this profession”

“A couple who have two children and who can't pay their bills and fill their fridge, it's horrible,” continues the actress, aware of being privileged by earning a very good living thanks to her profession.

The day she earned her very first salary as an actress, Audrey Lamy was so proud that she invited her parents to a gourmet restaurant.

“I was happy to take out my credit card,” she remembers.

Fabrice Eboué confides that it took him a while to earn a lot of money.

"Things came little by little. I never won the Lottery in that profession. I made a first film which did very well but since it was the first, I got ripped off. I didn't see the color of this great success", confides the actor who has never played the Loto in his life because he is not very comfortable with winning money without having deserved it. .

“I’m not very comfortable with privilege”

Like Fabrice Eboué, Anouk Grinberg, who plays the role of a caregiver who wins the jackpot, struggles with the money that falls from the sky.

“I'm not very comfortable with privilege. If I won the Loto, I would give a large part of it to associations and people who need it,” she confides.

Sandra, her character in

, will completely transform after receiving 12 million euros thanks to the winning ticket of one of her patients who has just died.

“When you live modestly and you're not unhappy about it, the money shatters all the benchmarks! Sandra no longer knows herself. She becomes cruel and fanatical about money,” explains Anouk Grinberg. 

Another funny segment of the film: the one in which a terrorist, played by Sami Outalbali (seen in

) who is about to carry out an attack learns that he has the winning ticket.

“It’s a context to make the paradox of winning the Lottery exist even more in a moment of life that is not the best,” assures the actor.

“It was the most grotesque situation for us!” continues director Romain Choay.

"We took a character with the strongest and most horrible convictions on earth, and we asked ourselves: 'Do these convictions survive the Lottery?'".

One thing is certain: you will certainly no longer want to play Loto after seeing 

And maybe it's not so bad when you know that 50% of people who hit the jackpot find themselves ruined after five years...