“Making a decision is not easy”: why Odile Vuillemin left the profile series

In 2016, Odile Villemin, who played psychologist Chloe Saint-Laurent, the queen of criminology, hung up her jacket and stopped the investigation on TF1. Viewers of his series profile then had a hard time understanding his decision. Today he explains it.

to the microphone Recreational televisionThe actor, who played the hero of the series from 2009 to 2016, wanted to explain the reasons for his departure, which are guided by the desire for something, but not only:

“It’s a decision that wasn’t that easy to make, that takes time, months, maybe even years, I don’t know. It’s such a personal decision that at some point, “Well, it becomes almost a selfish choice. It was a need at that moment, a desire to move forward, to learn something else.”

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I learned a lot from this series, but it was also a bit difficult, because we become a bit permeable with horror stories over the years (…) and such opacity was quite exhausting. I was regularly suffocated, terrible things always happened to him!

Remember that Profilage features a clinical psychologist, Chloe Saint-Laurent, who works as a criminologist with investigator Mathieu Perak (Philip Bass). And their differences in no way affect what unites them: the thirst for justice.

“After a while of playing, and as a matter of fact, six months of the year I was Chloe and the other six months to prepare, there was no longer the distance that we can have in the mini-series.”Analyzed by Odile Vuillemin. “So it got to me a little bit. I don’t know if I wouldn’t be more Chloe than Odile for a few years. The boundaries aren’t clear anymore. . . .”

It was inevitable for him to leave, but for the actor, things were done right:

“It’s a decision that wasn’t that easy to make, that takes time, months, maybe even years, I don’t know. It’s such a personal decision that at some point, “Well, it becomes almost a selfish choice. It was a need at that moment, a desire to move forward, to learn something else.”

The production of the play was announced in advance so that no one would be surprised, the actor recalls: “It was organized a year before. Maybe the public didn’t experience the same (…) and it’s quite funny because people still talk to me about it! It’s always transmitted, so when I see the public as it was. At my book signing there are For those who don’t know it’s suspended, I stopped it in 2015 but continues to live. The link is still there.

In 2022, the actor released a book, Latitudes – Travel the world to find your own wayPublished by Michel Lafon. This year he is in the cast of the TV series Lost River, which you can watch on TF1+.