Prime Video decided to heat up the New Year holidays. This Friday, December 22, the platform released online the first season of Escort Boys, the edgy, funny and exciting series created by Ruben Alves (La Cage Dorée, Miss).
Loosely adapted from Israeli fiction, Escort Boys follows four friends who accidentally sell their bodies to escape their troubles. Among these uninhibited boys is Simon Erlacher, alias Matthias, an actor with an intermittent career, whose face may not be familiar to fans of the TV series.
The bad boy of Coeur Océan
It was in 2007 that Simon Erlacher took his first steps as an actor, when he took the lead role in the 2nd season of Coeur Océan, a youth series broadcast in the summer on France 2.
There, he played Melvin, Lena and Pierre’s cousin, recently released from prison, who very quickly seduces the young Daphne (Caroline Guerin). However, he left the series at the end of season 4 in 2010. After appearing in fiction, in 2012 he was cast in Les Revenants, a successful original creation for Canal+, where he portrayed a gendarme who witnesses strange events. affects the local population.
In the same year, the public saw him in Ian Piatt’s Murder Chronicle, a biographical film directed by Antoine de Caunes. Unfortunately, after this promising start to his career, Simon Erlacher decided to drop off the radar to devote himself to Jiu-Jitsu, the sport he trained and taught professionally.
A devastating return to Plus belle la vie
Almost ten years later, in 2021, he returned to television. He joins the daily soap opera France 3, Plus belle la vie, and lends his features to Dr. Romain Vidal. A role that will allow him to introduce himself to the general public and that will give his career a boost.
After the series ended in 2022, she was cast in the Disney+ series Irresistible alongside Camelia Jordana, which debuted on the US platform last September.
A few months later, it was on Prime Video that he made a sensational entrance on the day of the online release of the first season of Escort Boys, where he was noticeably able to answer famous actors such as Kelly Rutherford (Gossip Girl) or even Rossi De Palma.
Coming soon to a series of TF1 events
And Simon Erlacher isn’t ready to stop his momentum as he soon stars in Cat’s Eyes, TF1’s next event series, which is currently being filmed. In this adaptation of the cult animated series of the 80s, he lends his features to Cilia’s boyfriend, one of the three protagonists played by Constance Labe, who is none other than Guillaume Labe’s little sister, his partner in Escort. boys. The circle is complete!
Watch Escort Boys Season 1 now on Prime Video.
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Camila Luna is a writer at Gossipify, where she covers the latest movies and television series. With a passion for all things entertainment, Camila brings her unique perspective to her writing and offers readers an inside look at the industry. Camila is a graduate from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a degree in English and is also a avid movie watcher.
