Prometheus on TF1: This accident that changed the script the day before filming

Odile Voulemin’s character in Prometheus might have been different if an unfortunate accident – but ultimately beneficial to the series – had not happened the day before filming.

In the new event series, which starts tonight on TF1 and also stars Camille Lou, Thomas Juan and Marie-José Croze, the former Profile star plays Marie Claremont, a psychologist who helps a mysterious patient at the hospital. who was hit by a car.

That patient is Prometheus (Fantine Harduin), a 17-year-old girl who miraculously escaped unharmed and has no memory of who she is or how she got there.

Why does the diminutive Marie Clermont wear a splint on her left arm?

Viewers who have seen the first two episodes of this fantasy thriller will definitely not notice that Marie Claremont is wearing a splint on her left arm. And if he explains to Prometheus in the second episode that he suffers from “fragility of the bones”, the real reason for the presence of this orthosis in the series is more surprising, since Odile Vuillemin broke his arm a few hours before going on set.

“I broke my arm before I got to the set”The actor actually told us in an interview. “I fell three hours before the train and broke my hand. That’s why I had to get this orthosis. I was lucky enough to have the train orthosis in this setback, but I wasn’t allowed to take it off for two weeks. You have to deal with it.”.

“The producer never dared to tell me that he was happy that I broke my arm, but in the end he was very happy with the orthosis, he thought it was great (laughs)”Continues Odile Vuillemin at our microphone. “It gives the character an extra dimension, adds mystery”.

Odile Vuillemin brought his touch to the script of the series

It was after this incident and filming his first scenes that Prometheus’ contraction interpreter had the idea to add a line of dialogue from episode 2, during which Marie admits to her young patient that she was him. In adolescence, he was called a “monster” because of his “fragility of bones”.

“I added this to the text”says Odile Vuilimin. “I thought it was quite brilliant, because it can be a lie from a teenager to a teenager to do good for a patient. It means that the teenager, who was Marie Clermont, talks to Prometheus and says to him: ‘You see, I was a teenager too’. , I was a monster” . This can be a therapeutic pose. As that may be completely true. We can imagine many things”.

“When I pitched this idea to ‘Weakness in the Bones,’ the producer and director, Christopher Campos, were on the moon. With Christophe we had a real creative emulation. I don’t know if we had it in mind to justify the orthosis or not, but at some point this idea of ​​bone weakness came up and that was good because it explained both the orthosis and that. Many ways to go. That’s really how a failure turns into a complete success (laughs)”.