What convinced Lannick Gautry to join the new TF1 series

Two weeks after the launch of everything for light on TF1, Lannick Gautry has just landed on our small screens. In this new event series, the actor embodies the role of Max Vargas, the husband of Victoria (Joy Esther), the heroine of the soap opera and father of her daughter, Baya (Louve the Coadou).

But then, what led the actor accepted this project? How does he experience the rhythm of filming of a daily life? He answered all our questions during an exclusive interview with Allociné!

Allociné: Are you happy to be part of the adventure a few weeks after the start of filming?

Lannick Gautry (Max): I am very happy and I am not disappointed at all.

You participate for the first time in a daily soap opera. How do you manage the intense rhythm of this kind of production?

Yeah, it's an intense pace to manufacturing, that's for sure. Afterwards, even if it is a daily newspaper, whether it is cut in 28, 52 or 90 sequences, it's the same TAF for us in front of the camera. When we shoot, it no longer belongs to us.

What can you tell us about Max?

Max is a solar character. When I was told about this project, I hadn't read anything. I was convinced without reading anything. It was the first time elsewhere. I was told about a character who is solar, generous and it's very good, but it remains a very generic term. But then, who is this guy? It seems to be someone generous.

Suddenly, because I did not yet have enough to read, the question I asked myself, that is why the character of Victoria, who, in history, is an old star who dropped everything to become a pedopsy, why a girl who touched the materiality, the rhinestones, the glitter, decides to spend twenty years of his life with a sports teacher?

I have nothing against the teachers, but I said to myself: “He is surely a guy who inspires him honesty, frankness, sincerity, who does not stop on who does what and who allows you to stay who you are.”

I got an idea of ​​this character at the beginning like that saying to me: “If we can stay with him, even if he has nothing to offer other than his own person, he is surely a good guy.”

How did you work it?

I went to this character while trying to understand who he is. He's a good character, but that doesn't mean it's a mop either. Afterwards, you have to create too …

Me, I like to find limits to the character, that is to say how he reacts to the events of life. We don't all react the same way, we don't have our limits in the same place. And when you play a character, it's good to know these limits.

The truth is that I always try to take the opposite, because if we go in the first direction of a sports teacher, we will imagine guys in survivors' who only talk about pumps and squats. But, our job does not define us, so that does not necessarily have great importance.

It's just a starting postulate, but anything can happen. What is interesting in fiction is that these are classic lives, in quotes, whose fate is upset.

This is what makes fiction interesting, in the end. These are people who look like us, but who do not have the same life as us. This is what will happen for him.

You already have a great experience as an actor. Do the new talents of the series come to ask you for advice? Are you a bit like their model?

Yes, but afterwards, I'm not a model. I have more experience, of course, but I think it's such a subjective job than being a model, it implies that you want to copy the other. In fact, you have no interest in doing this, you have an interest in staying yourself. You can look at career paths, but copying is complicated.

You play a lot with Joy Esther. How is your collaboration going?

Joy, she's a good comrade, she's nice, she doesn't take her head. I am amazed because it ensures well when there is still a large sum of work, it is the truth. We can't hide it.

And then there is all this pressure of the result, we want it to work, we necessarily ask ourselves questions. And I find that it manages it rather very well, because it is a big thing to do and it has never done it before.

What could you tell us to convince viewers to watch the series?

I believe that when they see the trailer, they will want. Anyway, it will necessarily be surprising and rich because the context that is proposed, namely this school which is located in a place in France and all these students who will obviously come in different geographic places, with different life paths, social classes, is rich.

In short, all these destinies will meet, telescope, they will love each other, they will hate each other. It's going to be rich! What else to say to the spectators to convince them to look? Just tell them that I was convinced without reading. That is to say!

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