#meg steinheil
“MY SHOW WILL BE MAGICAL AND ENCHANTING” - Evelyne Brochu
Échos Vedettes Sep 18, 2021 ✏️ Victor-Léon Cardinal.
Two years after the release of her album Objets perdus, Evelyne Brochu swapped her acting career for that of a singer. Ready to hit the roads of Quebec this fall, the mother of three talks about her shows and gives us some news.
After having postponed her tour many times because of the pandemic, Evelyne Brochu is thrilled to finally be able to bring the songs from her first album to the stage. “In the last year, I sometimes had the impression that this dream would not come true. Today, I am so happy to know that it will finally come true! I can’t wait to hit the road with five experienced musician friends, including Félix Dyotte, who is the genius behind my album. Without him, this musical adventure would not exist. I want to celebrate the great friendship that unites us on stage. We are currently working very hard to offer a show that will be both magical and enchanting.”
A BLOSSOMING FRIENDSHIP
Having been friends since they met in Saint-Laurent CEGEP in the late 1990s, Evelyne Brochu and singer-songwriter Félix Dyotte have also had the opportunity this year to work on something else. Indeed, the duo recently participated in the creation of a new song for the next season of Passe-Partout, which will air next winter on Télé-Québec. “It was a lot of fun to do that! I can’t say anything more, though, since the unveiling of the new Passe-Partout songs hasn’t been done yet. For the moment, Felix and I are still working on my second album. We don’t have a release date to announce yet, but it will definitely happen.”
CRAZY ABOUT HER CHILDREN
On a personal level, the performer of Maintenant ou jamais is perfectly happy with her boyfriend, Nicolas Schirmer, her son Laurier, who will be three years old in October, and her twins Camille and Matthias, born in November 2020. “I won’t hide the fact that everyday life with twins is a sport! It multiplies the challenges by two, but it also multiplies the love I have for them. Every time I go home, my heart raced at the thought of seeing my children again. I’m crazy about them!”
The proud mom doesn’t plan to be away from home for very long on her tour. “When I’m on stage, they’ll be sleeping, and the next day I’ll be back to them. I, for one, am looking forward to reconnecting with my artistic side. These parties will take me out of my daily life and my maternity leave. I actually have a big smile on my face when I look at my schedule for the fall.”
SEVEN MONTHS IN PARIS
Evelyne Brochu does not plan to continue her performance tour in 2022. “It is difficult for me to announce dates for next year because, as of January, I will move to Paris until July. There I will be shooting the French series PARIS POLICE 1905, which will be the sequel to PARIS POLICE 1900, currently broadcast on Thursdays at 9 p.m. on ARTV. This time we will meet the characters five years later. I can’t wait to see what the author is going to plunge us into and to find my playing partners, with whom I had become friends in 2019.” Recall that the actress plays the role of the courtesan and spy Marguerite Steinheil in this series.
The young mother also plans to take advantage of this filming experience in France to temporarily move to the City of Light with her children. “I’m confident that we’ll find a good way to combine all this. The fact that this shoot is spread out over a long period of time will allow me to enjoy Paris with my family. At the moment, I have no other projects, except for an American film in which I will be shooting next summer in Montreal. All I can reveal about this project is that it will be a comedy in which American actors and Quebec actors will work together.”
Post link
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.
Post link
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.”
Post link
tried to wipe the fog off Marguerite Steinheil’s car window to see her face clearly
Evelyne Brochu : Paris police 1905 / Tetra Media Fiction
Post link
Evelyne Brochu - Le Film Français, portrait session, February 01, 2022 in Paris, France.
Julien Lienard
Post link
Evelyne Brochu attend the “Trophees Du Film Francais” at Hotel Intercontinental Opera on February 01, 2022 in Paris, France.
Post link
Evelyne Brochu, Jeremie Laheurte, Thibaut Evrard and Eugenie Derouand attend the “Trophees Du Film Francais” at Hotel Intercontinental Opera on February 01, 2022 in Paris, France.
Post link
From a feminist point of view, I want to do more than be an object of desire. I want to embody paradoxical characters. What I like is the transposition. In Paris Police 1900, I wear a corset. I always said no to corsets. But there, the corset allows me to channel Marguerite’s anger, to express what women who were entirely at the mercy of men at that time could experience. You see, I like the word ‘sublimate’ very much. That’s a bit like my job: to sublimate emotions, physical or mental pain, and to make something concrete out of it, like a film, a song…
— Evelyne Brochu, Elle Québec Nov. 2021
Post link
