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CANAL+ Séries : De son regard noir elle pénètre les secrets de la Belle Époque. @evelyne_brochu est Marguerite Steinheil dans Paris Police 1900, le 8 février sur @canalplus.
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Evelyne brochu as Marguerite Steinheil in Paris Police 1900
Meg was the mistress of President Félix Faure, who died “in her arms”. Now without a protector, badly married to a failed painter, she has to find a new source of income to raise her daughter. So it was not long before she became an informant for the commissioner Puybaraud, who gave her the mission of infiltrating the Guerin family, the figurehead of the nationalist leagues. From courtesan, Marguerite became a spy, taking ever greater risks.
Coming soon in February 2021 on Canal+ / myCANAL
Evelyne really likes playing a spy.
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Paris police 1900 (2021) - 1st Official Trailer
Paris, 1899.
The French president Félix Faure has just died. Crippled by the far right, anti-Semitic groups and rising anarchy, France has never appeared so weak.
When police chief Louis Lépine is urgently called out of retirement to restore order in Paris, the tragic discovery of a young woman’s torso in a suitcase floating down the Seine, spurs a young, ambitious detective Antoine Jouin into action at the heart of the police headquarters.
Joseph Fiersi is a corrupt officer known for blackmail who also moonlights as a hit man for the undercover police. He’s taken a particular interest in this criminal investigation and enlists Meg Steinheil – the courtesan accused of killing the frail-hearted president during sex – to work as a spy for him. In Paris, where crime and sin mix with opulence and puritanism, all of these characters will cross paths and join forces to save France.
Murders, blackmail, riots, conspiracies, coups – welcome to la Belle Époque.
- Director: Julien Despaux, Fréderic Balekdjian, Fabien Nury
- Producer: Emmanuel Daucé, Fabien Nury
- Writer: Fabien Nury
- Cast: Jérémie Laheurte, Evelyne Brochu, Marc Barbé, Thibaut Evrard, Patrick d’Assumçao, Eugénie Derouand
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Evelyne brochu as Marguerite Steinheil in Paris Police 1900
Meg was the mistress of President Félix Faure, who died “in her arms”. Now without a protector, badly married to a failed painter, she has to find a new source of income to raise her daughter. So it was not long before she became an informant for the commissioner Puybaraud, who gave her the mission of infiltrating the Guerin family, the figurehead of the nationalist leagues. From courtesan, Marguerite became a spy, taking ever greater risks.
Coming soon in February 2021 on Canal+ / myCANAL
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Paris police 1900 - trailer
To be available on Canal+ in February 2021. Starring Jeremie Laheurte and Evelyne Brochu.
International poster of Paris Police 1900 starring Evelyne Brochu. The first season is available on CANAL+ in France, and in Canada, it will be available on ICI Tou.tv EXTRA from April 8th.
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Evelyne Brochu in the prestigious French production PARIS POLICE 1900. Starting April 8, 2021 on ici Tou.tv EXTRA.
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PARIS POLICE 1900 : Reading the script
Behind the scenes of PARIS POLICE 1900 with Evelyne Brochu
Evelyne Brochu dives into the history
The actress plays in the ambitious French series Paris Police 1900
At this time last year, Evelyne Brochu was finishing the shooting of Paris Police 1900. Twelve months later, the series was finally broadcast in France. In an interview with JDM, the Quebec actress was delighted with the final result. With good reason.
After watching the first season of the French historical thriller, we see that Canal+ has pulled out the heavy artillery to put into images this great political-social fresco by Fabien Nury, which depicts the rise of anti-Semitism in France at the turn of the 20th century. The French press speaks of a budget of $24 million for eight episodes. This is enormous.
“I traveled to Paris to shoot a series of period films, and when I watch it today, I feel like I’m traveling through time,” says Evelyne Brochu, “On my iPad, I was breathless. The visual quality, the choice of shots, the editing, the music, the distribution? On the spot, I couldn’t believe it. I was like: my God! There are so many extras! So many corsets, hairstyles, costumes… It was extraordinary.”
An incredible opportunity
Evelyne Brochu knows how lucky she is to have participated in the project, which has been receiving excellent reviews in Europe since it went on air earlier this month.
“It was magical. We shot in huge castles… It’s incredible that being an actress could open so many doors. You visit places that you would never have the opportunity to visit as a tourist… You have to savor every moment.”
InParis Police 1900, Evelyne Brochu plays Marguerite Steinheil, known as Meg, a courtesan turned spy. The former mistress of President Felix Faure, who tries to climb the ladder despite her status as a second-class citizen.
“The woman was having a hard time. No right to vote, no right to have a bank account, and as soon as someone said ‘I saw this girl, she’s a whore’, she was locked up in Saint-Lazare for three months. As the author would say, for many of them it was: how do you learn to play cards when you start with the worst hand in the group?”
Evelyne Brochu describes Meg as a woman of heart with a rascal side. “Even if she doesn’t have a good deck of cards, she’s able to play the game because she sees the moves coming.”
A “modern” series
Paris Police 1900 may revisit the past, but Evelyne Brochu describes it as a modern series. Not only because it highlights strong female characters, but because it raises issues that continue to resonate in 2021, notably by taking up word for word the inflammatory speeches of Jules Guérin, a famous anti-Semitic activist and director of a weekly magazine called L’Antijuif.
“Using hate as a marketing tool… It’s very parallel to what we’ve been going through over the last four years,” says Evelyne Brochu.
Paris Police 1900 is not yet available in Quebec. Evelyne Brochu crosses her fingers that a local channel will acquire its broadcasting rights.
Given its success, the shooting of season 2 could start in January 2022. “That would give me time to get back into the corset!” jokes the actress.
A “BIG MATERNITY LEAVE”
For Evelyne Brochu, the new mother of twins, the pandemic proved to be a “great extended maternity leave”.
Contacted on the phone, the actress recounts having spent the first confinement with Laurier, her 2-year-old little boy. Then in November, the little family grew with the arrival of Camille and Matthias.
“It would have been a moment of cocooning anyway,” observes the 37-year-old actress. “But I would definitely want to introduce my children to everyone I love. I miss them.”
Sad for Montreal
Although she spent the last year with her family in a closed retreat, the Montrealer witnessed the ravages of the coronavirus on the cultural industry.
“I’m sad for my city, for the restaurateurs, for the theater shows we’re missing… Montreal is a city of outings, restaurants, theaters and cultural activities. I have the feeling that it is its soul that is affected.”
New songs
Evelyne Brochu plans to stay close to her family in the coming months. She plans to resume her acting career in August. A film project in Quebec is in the air…
On the music side, she hopes to finally be able to present her first album on stage. Entitled Objets perdus, the record released in September 2019 has never been the subject of a show tour because of the filming of Police Paris 1900 and a certain scourge called COVID-19.
In the meantime, she continues to secretly work with her long-time accomplice, songwriter Félix Dyotte, on “things that will come out”.
And every Monday, she appears in Trop, which will conclude in March after three seasons on Radio-Canada.
“It’s rare to see series about friendship, sisterhood… series that celebrate our differences,” observes the actress. “People recognize me through my mask to tell me about it, to tell me they like to watch our show.”
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France opens its doors to her
Evelyne Brochu is shooting in a new Canal+ TV series
Le Journal de Montreal | July 22, 2019
Evelyne Brochu fell into the eyes of the French. Five months after making her mark in Thanksgiving on Arte, she has just won a leading role in Paris Police 1900, a major Canal+ series.
“It’s fun when work leads to work, when one door opens and another opens behind,” observes the Quebec actress, who has a lot to thank the casting director who fought to get her to audition.
Evelyne Brochu (Trop,Café de flore) will feature a courtesan converted into a spy in Paris Police 1900, described as an ambitious 8-episode detective drama, produced by Emmanuel Daucé at Tetra Media Fiction and Fabien Nury at AFPI.
Shooting started
The first under way were made last week in the Paris region. Evelyne Brochu arrived on July 2 to rehearse and try on the period costumes she will wear throughout the six-month shoot.
“It’s never happened to me to have so much preparation time,” says the 35-year-old actress at the other end. “That’s a good sign. It means we want to see things through to the end.”
In very troubled waters
Inspired by real events, the Paris Police 1900 scenario is based on a macabre discovery: that of the body of a young unknown woman found in the Seine. A young inspector (played by Jérémie Laheurte) then launched a criminal investigation that could reveal a heavy state secret. During his search, he will cross paths with the character played by Evelyne Brochu, who is the mistress of the French president.
“It’s always interesting to see heroines sailing in troubled waters and having the strength to get out of it,” she says.
A major production
Directed by Julien Despaux (Black Spot,Profilage),Paris Police 1900 also features Thibault Evrard, Marc Barbe, Christian Hecq, Anne Benoit, Patrick D'Assumçao and Eugénie Derouand. To faithfully reproduce the early 20th century, the services of Anaïs Romand (costume designer) and Pierre Quéfféléan (set designer), both Oscar winners, have been selected.
“It’s a major production,” observes Evelyne Brochu. “It’s expensive to make the times. There are several scenes of crowds, social gatherings, castles…”
Round-trips
Evelyne Brochu, who gave birth to her first child last year, will make a few round trips from Montreal to Paris come January. After each month of shooting on French soil, she will cross the Atlantic again to spend a few weeks in Quebec, in order to refine her first album of songs, which should be released this fall.
And after this blitz of work on two different continents, she will begin the rehearsals of Three Sisters, the adaptation of a play by Chekhov that will be presented at Théâtre du Nouveau-Monde in Montreal in March.
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