The 25-year-old young woman plays Sarah, a child psychologist who will forge a special bond with Diego (Léon Durieux), an 8-year-old boy who has had strange visions since the disappearance of a little girl, in the Provence- Alpes-Cote d'Azur.
Filmed largely in the town of Forcalquier (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence), the series is inspired more by the region where it was written and filmed than by the feature film "Sixth Sense" by M. Night Shyamalan, assured its authors during a press briefing in Cannes.
"It's a rather special place" with "a bit of a western side, something quite wild, quite rough and at the same time quite poetic", underlines screenwriter Jeanne Le Guillou.
The "mystical" side of the plot, combined with the challenge of playing with a child, pushed Louane Emera, her full name, to join the adventure.
Her foray into the small screen has proven to be "much nicer than the cinema" due to the more sustained pace of filming, in line with her "hyperactive side", she explained.
What to reiterate the experience with a recurring role in a series over several years?
"Why not? It's difficult for me to commit so much, especially because I have my musical career on the side".
The series, directed by Akim Isker ("Nobody's Child"), and written by Jeanne Le Guillou and Bruno Dega ("The Lake Killer"), is scheduled before the summer on TF1.
In the meantime, the singer is delighted with the success of "CODA", an adaptation of "La Famille Bélier" (2014) on the complicated life of a deaf family and their hearing daughter, recently crowned with the Oscar for best film and that of the best male supporting role for the actor Troy Kotsur, deaf.
"It's a story that touches people (...) it's written with so much tenderness and such a desire to open up to the world that honestly it doesn't surprise me," she said. , "very proud to have been part of this project at the beginning".
"The Bélier family" won her the César for best female hope in 2015.
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