France 2 last night aired the last two episodes of L’Île burgnière, an original mini-series written by Michel Bouss with the help of Christian Cleres. The story takes place on a small fictional island in Brittany, where twenty armed activists land and confine all the inhabitants to a village school.
Alpha, the leader of this small group, has everything planned except that the shuttle connecting Penhick to the mainland eludes them and allows his five passengers to hide on the island. Over the course of 6 episodes, viewers tried to find out who these activists were and, above all, why they were holding the population hostage.
In the cast of this ambitious series, the France 2 community was able to find big names such as Lannick Gautry, Anouk Grinberg and Pierre Perrier, but also young talents taking their first steps here in front of the camera.
It was the case of Jane Cara, who plays the character of Kelly, an Irish teenager who will try to help the islanders. In the final episode of The Prisoner Island, which aired this Monday, February 27, the actor had to perform a dangerous scene that would never see the light of day, as revealed by series co-director Elsa Bennett. to our colleagues Entertainment television.
“There is a scene in which Kelly has to climb to the top of the lighthouse, a dangerous and dangerous exercise for which we faced a lot of difficulties.“There were actually several authorizations needed to shoot this scene, but the region initially denied them.
Therefore, the production had to insist on getting permission, which it finally received under one condition: only one person could climb the lighthouse.
“The lighthouse was considered very dangerous: once at the top, movements are extremely reduced due to the footpath, which is very narrow and surrounded by an unstable and very sharp metal barrier.“- explained the director. Only a stuntman was able to climb to the top of the lighthouse to film this scene: “Therefore, the scene was specially filmed by a stuntman who accompanied Jane“.
You can now find 6 episodes of L’Île burgnière on the France.tv website.
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