Audrey Fleurot is currently filming the fifth and final season of HPIof which she is the heroine. With more than 12 million viewers, the fiction broke audience records on TF1. Acquired in 105 countries and adapted for the United States, this series is nominated in the best comedy category at the international Emmy Awards, whose ceremony will take place in New York on Monday, November 25. At 47 years old, the actress, and now producer, enjoys the notoriety that her character as a talented and crazy researcher has brought her.
I wouldn’t have gotten here if…
…If my parents had not had their professional desires thwarted by their own parents. Although they were concerned about my desire to pursue an artistic career, convinced that it was necessary to have connections in this field to be able to access it, they were willing to support my desire, because theirs had been repressed. My mother would have wanted to write, be an author. Her parents told her: “Look, you’re going to sew…” In the end she became a childcare assistant and she still doesn’t know how to hem! My father would have liked to be a surveyor. His parents refused to register him for the exam, on the pretext that his older brother had failed. Coming from a military family, he became a professional firefighter.
What memories do you have of life in the barracks?
After Mantes-la-Jolie [Yvelines]We settled in the Château-Landon barracks, at 10my district of Paris. As an only child, I loved it there because it had a big gym where all the kids hung out and played. But, after a few years, my mother tired of life in the barracks, a life governed by her husband’s rank, and we moved to the Place des Fêtes, at 19.my city.
You have spoken many times about a decisive evening you had when you were 8 years old…
I would never have started an artistic career if my father had not taken me to the Comédie-Française. He was always flattered that I told him this story, but we must give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s. That night, my father was on duty at the Comédie-Française and it was my mother who told him: “Take the child. » During that night, I experienced an epiphany.
Does that mean?
It was a work by Carlo Goldoni, with Catherine Hiegel. I watched the show from the service seat, between the room and the stage. I saw the scene changes, the actors running and I discovered that you could tell stories, play characters, be another person. I liked the idea of doing a job that would allow you, for a certain time, to have another life. I really wanted to perform on stage. It is an incredible opportunity to have such evidence in your life. I got it when I was 8 years old and organized my entire life around it.
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