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Evelyne Brochu’s THANKSGIVING will be aired on ARTE in 2019.
Thanksgiving have been postponed from September 2018 to 2019
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A “pop-retro-intello” album for Evelyne Brochu
Evelyne Brochu compares the album project she is working on with Félix Dyotte to the musical collaboration between Beck and Charlotte Gainsbourg.
“I don’t promise it’s that good (laughs), but it’s like being in Felix’s musical universe, tailored to what he sees in me.”
For several months now, the actress has been making us think about this future album, on which we will discover the full extent of her talent as a singer, but the fantasy is about to become concrete: Evelyne Brochu recorded the songs last summer, and we could hear some of them “before the leaves are in the trees,“ she said in an interview with the QMI Agency. The full result will be available by the end of 2019.
The title of the album has been identified, but the artist prefers to keep it secret for the moment. As for the style emanating from it, Evelyne Brochu defines it, in an uncertain tone, as “francophone-pop-retro-intello”, “a little ‘vintage’, but not completely”.
“It’s a mixture of the periods, the 60s, 70s and 80s,” she said. “We can recognize Félix Dyotte, but it’s like his world has been taken somewhere else. I’m very excited, it’s very exciting!”
Friend of the CEGEP
Félix Dyotte, singer-songwriter whose latest album, “Excès de politesses”, was released last fall, and a former member of the Chinatown band, and Evelyne Brochu have known each other since the CEGEP period.
“He’s always been a friend of mine,” said Evelyne. “I used to be a vocalist in one of his ‘bands’, Les Rats Repus. I hated the name of the band; when people asked me what we were called, I replied that it wasn’t important! (laughs)”
While a student at the Conservatoire d’art dramatique, the young woman violated the rules of her school - which prohibited students from working in artistic businesses outside its walls - by sneaking gigs with Les Rats Repus at the Inspecteur Epinle bar on Saint-Hubert Street in Montreal.
Since then, the buddies have never stopped pushing the point together, and when a friend gave them the idea of recording equipment professionally in tandem, they took the concept literally.
“I was in Budapest filming, and Felix sent me a message on Facebook asking me if we were doing it. And I said yes! He wrote me songs. It’s amazing how, sometimes, things that have always existed can suddenly blossom.”
Singing and music have always been part of Evelyne Brochu’s life, for whom chorales and singing lessons have been part of her daily life since childhood. In addition to her collaborations with Félix Dyotte, some of which have ignited social networks, the actress also lent her voice to Stefie Shock’s “12 belles dans la peau”, a compilation in which he reinterpreted Serge Gainsbourg’s repertoire.
“Music is a direct link to the soul,” she observed. “It is the only art for which you don’t need to interrupt your life to enjoy it. Unlike cinema and television, where you have to sit down to watch, or reading, where you have to stop to immerse yourself in the story. The music blends with the memories and belongs to us completely.”
During her pregnancy
Pregnant at the time of the production of her album - baby Laurier is now five months old-, Evelyne Brochu is convinced that her current condition has affected her delivery of the different songs in the studio.
“It certainly changed me as a human being, then it changes the whole human instrument. I was laden with this love, and when I sing to my child, now I see in his eyes that he already has a very powerful relationship with singing and music.”
Evelyne Brochu is in the cast of François Delisle’s film Ca$h Nexu$, which will be screened on March 22. She will shoot the third season of Trop starting May 1st and will also be part of Monia Chokri’s new feature film, La femme de mon frère, which is expected to be released this year.
She also hopes that the French series in which she played the role of a spy, Thanksgiving, recently presented on Arte (and currently available on the web), will be aired in Quebec in the near future.
“I would really like it to be seen here, it’s really good,” she said. “I am making the following appeal: I don’t know who does the ordering work on Club illico and on the specialty channels, but it would be nice if we could see it at home!”
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The casting was very long. We didn’t write for any particular actors and so we have been looking for this couple for a long time. We knew we needed two different colors, two different personalities. That the male character would be very feminine and that the female character would have something strong, brave. …We hesitated for a long time, and finally, at one time we met Evelyne Brochu and she quickly made her mark. Because she is bilingual and has done many series. We also realized during the production that she had a real fan club because of Orphan Black and that she had a real reputation in the field of series. I thought it was nice to have a key figure in an English-speaking series to play the heroine of my first series.
—Nicolas Saada, director of Thanksgiving
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Thanksgiving (ARTE) - In a while
Evelyne Brochu, spy in Paris
Le Journal de Montréal - February 28, 2019
The Quebec actress makes her French TV debut Thursday night in “Thanksgiving”
For the biggest role of her career in France, Evelyne Brochu wears the clothes of a character she knows well: that of a spy.
Two years after the end of X Company on CBC , the Quebec actress is starring in Thanksgiving, a mini-series that Arte will air on Thursday night.
In an interview with LeJournal, the actress cannot hide her excitement. “It’s exciting!” she says on the phone. “I am very proud of this project.” A mini-series of three episodes written and directed by Nicolas Saada (Espion(s),Taj Mahal),Thanksgiving portrays a couple made up of an employee of the American intelligence services and a partner of a computer company (Grégoire Colin) who is about to sell out his own firm by selling a program that he develops.
Arte calls Thanksgiving a spy drama, but just forget Homeland andAlias. The series does not offer any action footage at all. “Nicolas said that it’s a series about the lies within the couple,” says Evelyne Brochu. “That’s what I found interesting: how the unsaid can afflict us.”.
“It was magical”
Evelyne Brochu got the role of Louise from a distance, after a video audition and a Skype meeting with Nicolas Saada. “It’s cool to know that it’s possible to do this today. It makes it easier for those who want to pursue a career abroad,” says the actress from Café de Flore,Orphan Black,MiradorandPolytechnique.
The filming of Thanksgiving took to Paris in November and December 2017. During this period, Evelyne Brochu rented an apartment in the 11th district which she found on Airbnb and was located a few minutes’ walks from the set. “It was magical,” she says. “This proximity, this immersive effect… It fed my character a lot. I lived differently, I spoke differently, I lived with different people… I got so wrapped up.”
The actress really liked the rhythm of the French shoots, which were much slower than in Quebec. “Their schedules are a little more ‘humane’. We had time to finish the scenes. And every lunchtime, we would sit down and discuss the scenes over a glass of wine!”
New mother
New mum since October, Evelyne Brochu has not promoted the series in France in recent weeks. She preferred to answer journalists’ questions in Montreal, so she could stay with her son.
“I wanted us to have our first months together,” she explains. “I have never been so present-moment. Je tripe à mort.”
Album to come
Evelyne Brochu is still working, however. With Félix Dyotte and Philippe Brault, she is refining her debut album of songs expected later this year. She is also preparing to shoot the third season of Trop in the spring. And until Saturday, she was part of the jury for the Gilles-Carle Award for Best First or Second Fiction Feature Film at the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois.
“I watched the 12 films in selection, including Une colonie,Nous sommes GoldandMad Dog Labine,” she says. “C’est une cuvée écœurante! We make good cinema in Quebec.”
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Thanksgiving (2019) 2 min trailer
How did you choose Grégoire Colin and Evelyne Brochu?
Director Nicolas Saada: “We chose Grégoire on casting. He gave the character a fragility, tenderness, darkness, duality. And, above all, a lot of elegance. For the role of Louise, we were looking for an actress who speaks French and English, who can be believable without being American - there are all kinds of constraints related to the American system when shooting in France. Evelyne, who is a Quebecer, speaks perfect French, but she has created this mysterious accent especially for the character. I really liked this breakthrough. She did the same for the English scenes. Frederick Wiseman, who played in the film, was convinced that she was from New England.”
- TéléObs Magazine, February 21, 2019
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Evelyne Brochu / Meeting with the “Thanksgiving” team - Direction of the show
