The TV movie "La doc et le véto" will be broadcast Tuesday evening on France 3 and tells the story of a young Parisian doctor who has to share her office in a village in Auvergne with a veterinarian played by Michel Cymès.
During the shooting, helped by a breeder, he gave birth to a lamb.
Very moved by this event, he finally bought the animal, to prevent it from going to the slaughterhouse.
The story of a young Parisian doctor who comes to settle in an Auvergne village - a medical desert, and who finds himself having to share her office with the local veterinarian, this is the story of the TV movie "The doc and the vet ", broadcast on France 3 Tuesday evening (9:05 pm).
Dounia Coesens, well known to viewers of
Plus Belle La Vie
(Johanna Marci), plays the role of the doctor, and Michel Cymès that of the veterinarian.
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"My goal is not to become an actor at all"
This is not the first time that the host and doctor have acted in a fiction.
Already seen in
Meurtres en pays d'Oléron
in 2018, Michel Cymès wanted to repeat the experience.
"Everything I do in the media has to be appended to the word 'fun.' So if I have fun, I do it, otherwise I don't. I don't have a goal of doing it at all. become an actor and only do this job. But sometimes it feels good to rest your brain by going to do something else, "he told Europe 1.
"I'm a little tired of all the fake news and all the misinformation around us about health. After months and months of Covid and controversy, it did me a lot of good to think of something else ", continues the host.
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"He lives a quiet little sheep life"
On the set, Michel Cymès was particularly marked by an event.
Guided by the breeder placed right next to the cameras, he gave birth to a lamb.
"I have had human baby deliveries, but I had never put my hand up to the elbow," he smiles.
"There, we had to turn the lamb to unlock its leg and pull on it. It was quite physical", he recalls, "I really did it, it's a very moving memory".
"To avoid it, because it is a bit the principle, because the lambs go to slaughter after a few months, I bought it from the breeder. I gave him the price he would have gotten for it. at the slaughterhouse and this lamb, which has grown well since, lives a quiet little life as a sheep, "concluded Michel Cymès.