It all starts here: Greg’s robe, a kiss with Lionel… Mikael Mittelstadt comments on Greg and Elliot’s wedding event.

It’s All: D-Day has finally arrived here it all begins. After weeks of preparation – and months of anticipation from fans – the long-awaited wedding of Greg (Mikael Mittelstadt) and Elliot (Nicolas Anselmo) is finally celebrated with great fanfare this Friday 14 July at 18:30 on TF1. At the same time, as with Hortense and Mehdi, the double marriage obliges.

After admitting in the first part of our interview how this latest intrigue, which marks his departure from the series, as well as Nicolas Anselmo’s, Michael Mittelstadt returns for us here on the marriage episode itself. . All about its unexpected and surprising moments and sometimes chaotic filming due to capricious weather, about these special scenarios that will be here in history.

Don’t forget to let us know which ark he preferred three years ago and tell us about his future projects.

AlloCiné: How was filming the wedding sequences for the TV series Here It All Begins Tonight? Was it too emotional?

Michael Mittelstadt : The weather didn’t help us as it was 30 degrees at 14:00, full sun, then at 14:08 there was a flood, at 14:27 the sky was covered with clouds. In terms of connectivity and continuity, it was not easy. There are quite a few scenes that we had to move because of the weather. When we live in such moments, we say to ourselves “Very good, we will have a lot to talk about later, especially in the interview” (laughs).

But of course, it’s filled with emotion afterward as the event that everyone has been talking about for so long finally materializes. For me, this marriage was obvious. A year later, I told Nikola “You see, this story will end with marriage”. The emotion was very strong. But what’s cool is that it wasn’t our last day of filming. After that, luckily, we had a few more days, because otherwise we would have all sunk into sadness and sadness (laughs).

So you didn’t end up shooting that ark at all with the final scene of the wedding episode showing Greg and Elliot leaving with Lionel, Jasmine, Mehdi and Hortense?

No, we shot that scene a week or ten days before the wedding. In the end it happened very quickly to shoot this arch. That’s the magic of television. Nicholas and I’s last series was Reconciliation in the Swamps. It is a very good scene. In general, the production tries and ends us with some symbolic scenes. Last year, in November, I finished with a farewell speech in the kitchen. He was also very strong.

Greg wears a kilt to the wedding. was it your idea

not at all If you want to know everything, I was shooting the second series in Martig, The Snake Queen, when everything starts here, the costume designer calls me and tells me. “We’ll need you for the costume trials.”. And I did not understand, I answered “But I only left six months ago, do you really need new outfits?”. And he tells me “But actually we have to make arrangements for your kilt”.

He was the one who taught me because I got the texts a week before but I didn’t have time to read them because I was shooting a movie. So I pretended I knew what he was talking about (laughs). “But of course a kilt. I’ll look at my arrangement and come”. And indeed, then I looked at the script and there was indeed a kilt for a wedding.

One scene in particular will make you laugh out loud in Here It All Begins: the moment Greg kisses Lionel during the ceremony. This moment was scripted or improvised Lucien Belves ?

it was written When I read the scripts, after I found out I was wearing a can, I was also surprised by the fact that Greg was kissing Lionel. So I immediately sent a message to Lucien, who answered by voice.

I had sent it quite late, around 1 am, I was coming back from shooting. And he answered me the next day, around 7 o’clock, he told me “Impossible, it’s too early to send me such a message” (laughs). But with Lucien we are friends, we played and we did it while having fun. It was written in the script, it was not improvisation at all.

What’s your favorite plot here it all starts in these three years?

I really liked last year’s summer arc. National Confectionery Championship. Maybe because he was the lightest in emotion (laughs). It was an investigation and we were outside the context of school, lessons, in a new environment. This marked a huge gasp in me. Even if the shooting conditions were horrible, suffocating because of the heat, I have wonderful memories. We had a lot of fun on this arch.

Now that things are starting to turn the page here, what projects do you have?

I recently filmed season 2 of Snake Queen, which I contributed modestly to. I don’t know when it will be broadcast, but I know it is for Canal+ series. Season 2 takes place 12 years after the first, and I play the role of a young guy who was in the first season, who was an apprentice to one of the main characters. He finds himself in the intrigue of the conflict between Catholics and Protestants of the time, at the wedding of Henry IV. Another marriage (laughs).

And the rest I cast and aim a little more at what I want to do. And then it’s a matter of timing and luck.