"Five minutes of confined relaxation" ... The offer seems tempting on paper. On the screen, she promises to cheer up the viewers every evening from this Sunday, April 19 on France 2 at 8:55 p.m. The order of well-being of the chain in full epidemic of Covid-19: a short fiction, new and daily called "Help, hello!" " “A comedy in touch with reality, which sketches the daily life of the French. To laugh together about the human situations that generate our confined lives, "says the chain.
Entirely shot on the smartphone by each of the protagonists, this creation produced by Guillaume Lacroix, Renaud Le Van Kim, Philippe Mechelen and Julien Hervé will bring together actors from the cinema, television, stand-up and the stage. They will interpret citizens stranded at home and who will call two improvised experts, interpreted by Alice Belaïdi (“WorkinGirls”, “les Kaïra”, “l'Ascension”) and Loïc Legendre (“L'Elève Ducobu”, “Quel- what we still did to the good Lord ”), to enlighten them on their new way of life as a recluse.
Marina Foïs, Géraldine Nakache, Jean-Paul Rouve…
Isolation, teleworking, children's homework, shopping, sporting activities, video conferences with friends, neighbors ... Everything will be an excuse to smile. "The confinement gives rise to pretty funny situations if we take a little distance, whether it is this mom on teleconference while her daughter takes the toothbrush to clean the toilets, intercourse within the couple, of the family, advance Anne Holmes, the director of fiction of France Televisions. We offer a playful, united and very public service wink. All television genres have adapted to the crisis. Fiction is also mobilized and there was only humor to do it ”.
Decided a week earlier, the program began to be shot this Thursday, April 17. A feat. In the first plays, Olivier Baroux, Michèle Bernier, Marina Foïs, Jean-Paul Rouve, Elie Semoun, Bruno Solo, Camille Lellouche, Manu Payet, Géraldine Nakache, Jonathan Cohen, etc. have agreed to lend themselves to the game. “They are alone in front of their computer or their smartphone without make-up artist or chief operator. But all of them accepted in a surge of solidarity to restore morale to the people, ”says Anne Holmes.
We can count on the authors, including Philippe Mechelen and Julien Hervé, former regulars at Guignols de l'Info (Canal +) and "Tuche", to guarantee the touch of derision at least until May 11.