Successfully aired every Thursday night on TF1, Balthazar Season 4 is a good testament to the renewal, especially thanks to the arrival of Constance Labe as Camille Costes and the new dynamics created by his duet with Tomer Sisley. However, requiring a change, fans of the series were clearly saddened by the absence of the first three seasons heroine Helen Bach.
After 24 episodes in Police Captain’s Shoes, Ellen de Fugerolle announced her departure from Balthazar in December 2020, explaining in particular that the authors were afraid to get bored of the Balthazar-Helen relationship: “We can not continue this dog / cat story indefinitely”.
The choice of script was confirmed by designer, collection director and producer Clotilde Jamin during the interview. “Reflection is what any screenwriter in a series based on a romantic duo asks.” Explains the one who created Balthazar in 2018 with Clelia with Constantine. “Shortly after we have used all the sources of romantic comedy, there are two solutions”.
“The first is that the two characters meet, which at least indicates the end of the tension, which is a major driving force in Balthazar and most of the series. Otherwise, we continue to make this story impossible, but at some point we will definitely start to go away. In circles. Whatever the quality of the character and the quality of the relationship between the two, we must seek to renew ourselves. And in this case, it was thanks to this decision that Helen Bach was separated from the character. “.
Although the finale of Season 3 left the future of the medical examination, played by Tomer Sisley, who was left with a bruise to death, quite unresolved, nothing suggested, according to the script, that Helen would leave. So the audience was looking forward to finding out how his absence would be and explaining it in Season 4. And this is where the biggest disappointment happened.
Indeed, at the end of the scene in the first episode of Season 4, we learn that Balthazar rejected Elena when she woke up in the hospital (when she finally declared her love for him) and that she went to live in Polynesia. For a fresh start. The hasty departure, which Clotilda Jamin does not want to deny, even Balthazar’s screenwriter and producer explains that there is logic behind this decision.
“Yeah Al that sounds pretty crap to me, Looks like Al that sounds crap to me, Looks like Al that sounds crap to me, Looks like Al that sounds crap to me, Looks like Al that sounds crap to me, Looks like Al that sounds crap to me, “He is a character that is very popular with the audience, that the duo worked very well with Balthazar.”.
“So we offered Helen a real ride, taking the time to bring out the character at the beginning of the season. At the risk that after that it would be very difficult to introduce a new character behind her.”Continues Clotilda Jamin. “Or we closed like this, from the beginning of the season, to start something new again. And so we imagined this episode on the plane, where everything goes very fast and where not, after all, we” do not have much time to ask ourselves the question of his absence. , But we had a lot of arguing with the authors..
Eventually, Balthazar’s writers were able to breathe a sigh of relief into Season 4, turning Camille into a completely different character from Helen, who quickly established a more “brotherly” relationship with Tommer’s character.
As for Ellen de Fugerol, she is not idle as she will soon be found in two series subtitles: Valkyries on TF1 and and Mount Flowering on France 3.
Source: allocine
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