With 5.5 million loyal viewers on Tuesday evening on France 3, the last unpublished episode of the
Alex Hugo
series has again taken everything in its path.
For nine years, this lonely mountain cop character has been a favorite of the French, taking his place on the podium of the most watched series behind
HPI
and
Capitaine Marleau
.
A triumph that made Samuel Le Bihan happy: “
Success is a gift!
We don't really know why it happens... With
Alex Hugo
, we are in the right place with the right people and the right character at the right time... But we are always afraid of the audience because we do this job to be loved and we don't want to disappoint viewers
“, he explains.
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While the series is a hit, only three new episodes are broadcast each year.
A voluntary limitation that Samuel Le Bihan himself justifies with one word: quality.
“
We don't want to do more than three a year because we care about the quality of the writing.
It's mandatory if you want good stories.
We do it like craftsmen with the time of writing, the time of location scouting, the time of development… If we want to maintain a level of quality and not disappoint the public, we have to go through that,” he says
. before talking about his attachment to the character: “
I brought Alex back to me and brought him things, like a great buddy you want to share stuff with.
Alex inspires me with his relationship to nature, his sense of justice... It's a fantasy of freedom because he goes away when he wants.
He saw things that I would dream of living
.
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“My autistic daughter is a life lesson and a source of happiness for me”
Samuel LeBihan
Asked about the news and the tense climate that reigns in France, Samuel Le Bihan has strong words to describe the anger of the street: “
There is great precariousness in France.
People feel overwhelmed by life.
And when we go in the street, it's to express our anger!
Our society is becoming more violent, more radical
.
The actor also supports the demonstrators by specifying that the country's great social advances have often come from the streets: "
If we have the life we have today in France, it's thanks to people who took to the streets and fought for benefits.
If France is so envied in the world, it is thanks to these fights led by our fathers, our grandfathers.
It is important and we must hear them!
An unfailing commitment on behalf of his daughter
Father of a young autistic girl, Samuel Le Bihan is closely affected by this social problem: raising a disabled child.
He made it the theme of his next fiction,
You will not kill,
which will be broadcast in the fall on France 2. He plays a lawyer who defends a woman guilty of having put an end to the suffering of her child suffering from autistic disorders. severe.
“
I see a lot of people in despair.
We don't realize what it's like to take care of a disabled child every day.
It's very very hard!
“, he admits, moved, before evoking his daughter Angia: “
My daughter is a sun!
She has made tremendous progress.
Before, she didn't speak, didn't eat, she self-mutilated... Today, she is in college, she has friends, she laughs, she communicates... There are two worlds between her childhood and today. today.
It's a life lesson for me and it's also a source of happiness
,” he says.