Thibault de Montalembert shares the poster for "Piste Noire", at 9:10 p.m. on France 2 alongside Constance Labbé.
A mountain thriller in which he plays a major of the gendarmerie who is investigating the murder of a skier in a resort in the Alps.
Difficult to recognize the actor with the hair usually provided.
A choice made by Thibault de Montalembert: “
Director Fred Grivois is Franco-Canadian and films in the American way.
He took this fiction down a path I had never seen before.
So, I wanted to shave my head very short for a change.
I loved !
I too wanted to go where I had not gone before.
“The shooting, which lasted 4 months between October and January, remains a great memory for the actor, even if everything was not easy: “Q
when we arrived, there were still leaves.
Then the snow changed everything in a week!
Everything closed in an incredible silence.
The conditions were very difficult with very hard days at high altitude.
Some technicians passed out because of the cold!
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Read alsoOur review of the Piste noire series: trap in the high mountains on France 2
A very popular actor, Thibault de Montalembert admits to receiving more requests for American or international productions than French ones!
"
When I played with Thimothée Chalamet in ''The King'' on Netflix, a lot of people saw that I spoke good English and that opened doors for me
," he admits.
“
I shot in the first Kristin
Scott-Thomas film with Sienna Miller and Scarlett Johansson and also in a big series on Benjamin Franklin with Michael Douglas for AppleTV+.
Michael Douglas is very nice and very elegant.
A true gentleman and a very great professional.
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Referring to the bridges between cinema, television and platforms, Thibault de Montalembert confides that it is above all a question of differences in means of production: "
Apple has very large means and money is the sinews of war, but it is especially the quality that counts.
I am attracted by projects above all.
But I would like French cinema to call me a little more because I'm not just a TV or platform actor...
", he says.
The message is launched.
“Everyone knows Dominique Besnehard.
He's a bit like the father of French cinema"
Thibault de Montalembert
Finally, Thibault de Montalembert returns to the role that made him famous, that of Mathias Barneville, the star agent of the series "Ten percent".
A film is also in preparation to definitively close the saga.
“
There will be no season 5 but a film which is being written with Fanny Herrero and Lison Daniel,
says the actor.
I don't know the story at all, but the team will be complete.
It's a real challenge because there are many of us and it's going to be complicated to fit everyone into a single film!
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The actor also evokes Dominique Besnehard, producer of “Ten percent” and a key figure in the profession.
Hospitalized following a heart attack last December, the producer is doing better as confirmed by Thibault de Montalembert: “
I had him on the phone and he is fine.
I have known him since I was born into this profession when I was 19 years old.
He is a tutelary figure, everyone knows him!
He's a bit like the father of French cinema.
He is above all a wonderful man and a man of heart who made all his choices in his life, not according to his interest but according to his feelings.
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