Every return is synonymous with new faces here, and the start of season 4, which began on TF1 on Monday night, was no exception to the rule. far from there.
At the institute’s entrance exams, the audience met Jim (Loan Becmont), the eldest son of Chef Leroy, but also Bérénice Tannenberg, Constance’s half-sister. The legendary sadism of Taysier (Benjamin Barochet).
Without forgetting Penelope (Laurence Facellina), in the thirty-year-old makeover, Carla (Ariccia Lemer), a confident young woman from a very wealthy family, and Malik (Oscar Al Hafian), a little wonder in the kitchen who arrives. Calvières, hoping to meet Ophel, to whom he loved to propose, who was actually Ambre (Claire Romain).
These aspiring chefs, who will join Maya (Alexandra Faval) and Leonard (Thomas Villani), introduced earlier this summer on This Is Where It All Begins, will they make their dream come true? Will they be among the twenty candidates who will have the privilege of forming a new promotion for the Auguste Armani Institute? Answer Friday on TF1.
Meanwhile, Sara Farrahmandi and Egantine Sofianos, executive producer and executive producer of Here It All Begins, respectively, told us how they envisioned the profiles of these new characters, who want to be very different from what the series already offers. In previous years, even if the idea is always the best representation of the company.
Because one thing is for sure: Jimmy, the ex-soldier, Penelope and her sincerity that sparks, or even Leonard and his unwavering kindness promises to not leave indifferent and touch the hearts of TF1 viewers.
AlloCiné: How did you draw the new profiles for Season 4? What were the areas of development for the new promotion of the institute?
Sarah Farrahman : Everything started at the beginning of March. We’re used to spending big weekends with the writers of the series, during which we think about everything we want. Which character do we want to see in the series? What are we missing in terms of profiles? what have we lost What have we never had? Characters emerge from there.
Then, the authors work again in small groups. It takes about a month and a half to define all the characters that we want to have, that we think are representative of today’s society and that will bring something to the series. We didn’t want copies of existing characters or characters that wanted to go. That wasn’t the goal at all.
For example, for the character of Jimmy, we told ourselves that we didn’t have some mysterious guy, a bad guy in a way. This is disturbing and at the same time we want to know more. Who is like that today? person It kind of stems from here.
Then we told ourselves we had to take Leroy’s son. It’s the opposite of that, so we found it very interesting. Leroy, we found him to be a pretty open guy with participatory methods. What is the opposite? Military. So we built something like this. As if we had a lot of keywords. We told ourselves that we never had a soldier in the series. This is something that we have mentioned several times in the past, but we never kept it up because it didn’t lead to anything. When we put him up there against Mark Leroy, that’s definitely saying something.
We imagine you’ve been dying to learn about Constance’s past and family, too, after being so intrigued by the Teysiers for three seasons. What is the relationship between Constance and Berenice, her half-sister?
Eglantine Sofianos : They are quite close. They did not necessarily grow up together, and Constance did not act as a mother to Berenice either. We don’t want to fall into the image of “big sister’s mother”. This is not an idea. However, there is trust between them. Berenice can confide in her sister with complete peace, where she will be a little more fragile in front of Teysier.
When Berenia arrives at the Institute, Constance is still on her internship in Paris. How does Taysier greet him?
Considering the personality of Berenice, who is quite reserved in front of Teissier, it is certain that he will have to take her courage with both hands.
For the first time, a 30-year-old woman, older than her classmates, is included in the new action. Through Penelope, did you want to deal with the topic of vocational training, which you have never touched before in the series?
Sarah Farrahmand: Absolutely. We wanted to show vocational training, but also the shock of generations working and learning. Penelope is going to be an interesting character because she’s really on the border between the two. With the youngest of his promotion, but also with Constance and Laetitia, with whom he will form a relationship.
Leonard is already a favorite with some viewers. Without getting into stuffy box plots, was there a little desire on your part to bring back what you lost a little bit with this very sunny, very bright and representationally very important character. And Eliot?
Sara Farrahmandi: Representation is very important to us. As much as I said we didn’t want to fill in the boxes, it just as effectively represents today’s society as any sexual orientation. It was really important neither subject. There was a real will on our part, we didn’t want to say: “Okay, we already had gay characters in season 1, we don’t need to have them anymore”. It’s impossible. We are also interested in all forms of diversity in reality.
After that, he was not the only thing we were interested in Leonardo. We really wanted to show what it was like to grow up at home, create a family with people our age. Maya and Leonard also felt betrayed by Salome when she stopped giving news. It also shows how they see each other as siblings.
Maybe if Leonardo was heterosexual, everyone would have expected an affair between them at some point, which we didn’t care about at all. If from the beginning there is one of the two that the other does not care about, the question does not arise. With Leonard and Maya, we are really in the business of siblings.
Source: Allocine
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