Such a Great Sun : After Gilham, another main character on the way

There is carnage in Un si grand soleil. After Fred Bianconi (Virgil), Lucille Crier (Noém) and Manuel Blanc (who announced his departure on Instagram last week), it’s now the turn of Issam Medem to leave the France 3 daily soap opera.

Since the start of the series in 2018, the actor plays Akim, one of the police officers who is currently investigating the Buddha Blue trafficking case. And we have to believe that after 5 years of good and faithful service, the young actress, who recently appeared in a season 2 episode of Sophie Cross, is ready to step aside for this big adventure.

It’s on his account Instagram that Issam Medem began to cast doubt on a potential departure by publishing two stories relayed by our colleagues Recreational television. In the first, a crew member appears to be filming his final set with the message “5 days, a real adventure with my brother @aïssammedhem, take care bro“.

In another, we could see a camera crew with “Aïssam” written on their hearts. The latter commented “the last dance“(“the last dance“in French). Is this a sign that the end of Aisam Modem is near?

Télé Loisirs affiliate France 2 confirmed that the character would be leaving the series in January. However, the production revealed that the departure “remains open”, which means that the actor can return to the series in future stories.

An explanation that therefore suggests Akim won’t have a tragic end…unless they try to cover their tracks. Now it remains to be seen whether the fates of Gillham and Akim’s characters are connected, with the two actors leaving the series around the same time.

Especially since the producer of the series, Olivier Schulzinger, said in the columns of Télé Poche that two historical figures were going to leave at the same time. “One, we wanted a happy ending, but the other asked us to be released. So we decided to cross their fate and in the end, it ended in tragedy with the death of one of the heroes. but which one ” Answer to the month of January in the new episodes of Un si grand soleil.

The chain begins

Asked at the La Rochelle Fantasy Festival in September who celebrated the France 3 series in recent months, Olivier Schulzinger told AlloCiné that this phenomenon is part of the series’ life.

“Yes, there are departures, but not everyone leaves. There are also returns“, he explained, referring to the departure of Colin Ramos, Kira’s translator, who will also be leaving the series soon.

“Actors give us three or four years of their lives, which is extremely generous. But there comes a time when they want to explore other characters. This is normal and even great. They warn us well in advance.”

“In the case of Colin Ramos, he gave us almost a year’s notice, which allowed us to work and do something natural. Yes, it’s a “departure,” but there will be a lot of it in Season 6. And I hope he comes back to see us at one point or another.“