“I was a big fan of Grace’s anatomy” … Born in France, Jaik Eliot (Tarin Helm) tells us how to integrate the famous series casting

Jaikel Eliot entered Gray’s anatomy at the beginning of the 14th season to play Tarin Helm, a young resident full of ambitions. Over the years, this beloved character has experienced many trials that led him to where he is today.

Although the 21st season of Grace’s anatomy is currently undergoing TF1 every Wednesday, the distribution spoke to Jaik Eliot to discuss her atypical trip, as well as the future of her character.

Separation: You are French and you still play one of the largest series of American TV. What was your wallpaper on the casting of Grace Anatomy?

Jaik Eliot: I grew up in the international community in France. I was really at an international school, so I had many friends from all over the world who spoke English.

I watched many American series, including Grace’s anatomy. I was a big fan, I grew up and watched everything. And very young I wanted to be an actor. So, I did a theater and after a high school, I went to Paris to teach Florent’s lessons.

After completing my course, I wanted to travel. As my father is American, I have a dual nationality and that I speak freely in English, I decided to go to Los Angeles because I never lived there and that I had a family in California.

At first, I planned to stay there for a few months and then go to South America, but finally I stayed. I worked as a waitress to make money and with a needle thread, started taking theater lessons and building a small life in Los Angeles.

At one point, I found myself in front of a dead end. Either I stayed here, either traveling, or returning to France. So, I decided to create a play in Los Angeles and see where it was going. The theater is not a very popular genre there and I, from the courses from Florent, I wanted to test.

That’s when my family member told me about hearing Grace’s anatomy. He knew someone who knew someone and I was able to test. I had a positive answer a few days before my room was launched.

So first of all I have to tell the team that it would also be the last because I would be a little busy (Laugh).

You’ve been in Grace’s anatomy for over 8 years. What continues inspiration and fascinating in this character?

What I like in the series and this is the talent of Shonda Rhimes that it follows the events in the real world. There are many things we are talking about, which reflects the socio-economic problems of the United States.

And this is what we find in characters. They are also built on events that can affect the medical profession in the United States. We talked about burning a pandemic or tarin character.

This is what I am very interesting because you are never tired of the series and its characters. This makes us think, he tells us and he is about difficult things. I’m genius.

More specifically on my character, in the world of TV, I started at the same time when Tarin began his career in the hospital. For years, I had many other parallels between my life and tarin.

For example, in 21 seasons he lost his best friend Levi, who left the hospital, at the same time I lost my best friend Jake Borel, who stopped working on the series. I study at the same time as he learns.

For a very long time, Tarin had been suppressed by Meredit. Does he always have feelings for him, or have they passed? Did you like anything to do with them?

Tarin was many admired for Meredit when he arrived. In the world of Grace’s anatomy, it was an icon, he managed to break the glass ceiling and suffer an incredible thing.

Everyone comes to Seattle to work with it. And Tarin came for that. So he has a lot of excitement and charm for Meredit. And it was very natural for me to play, because in real life, Ellen Pompeo is very impressive and dazzling.

He still attracted the way for many actors. So, in real life, I also have a charming thing for that. As for Tarin’s feelings towards Meredit, I think very quickly, he realized that it would not be done and that it would never happen.

Did you like them to get rid of it and that a romantic thing happened between Meredit and it?

For me, their relationship could not be. If anything had happened, it would leave Tarin ambiguously because they would never be together. And Tarin was suffering.

In the end, Tarin’s only love story we saw on the screen is Mika. Want to see more aspect of this character in the following seasons?

I think one of the reasons why we love a series is the love stories and the connections between the characters. We would like to see that they love them. In the end, I like that Tarin is not tied to a person, but his inner journey and relationship with himself, friends, his ambition and his difficulties.

We are in a world where women receive an independent creature that has the right to dream and ambition, except love and family. So I like Tarin to play this role.

First of all, I would like to see that he is growing up as a doctor because it is his dream and he left everything to get there. And precisely, he knows more and more himself, which will allow him to really fall in love. I would like to see that he has performed a real operation that changes the situation and it saves life. This is especially what I want for him. Love will be later.

Grace’s Anatomy Season 21 was celebrated by Levi’s departure, who is Tarin’s best friend. How did you react when you learned?

Personally, I was bored that my friend was gone. And that’s the same for tarin. But I realize that it is good that Jake Borel has left for his career to be able to do what he wants. And Levi’s character is left with the man he loves, so these are good circumstances.

But she is convinced that now, Tarin is its popularization in the recent still in Seattle. I hope that this will be the opportunity to really get in his business. I hope that we will see him more as the head of the intern, and that in his loneliness, he will find the courage to restore himself.

What was your biggest challenge in Grace’s anatomy?

I have new challenges in Grace’s anatomy all the time. I am a person who always follows thinking, so as soon as I have a challenge I try to decide and work until I can move on.

This is how it develops from season to season. But I think my biggest challenge for Grace’s anatomy is that this is a job that never stops. We should always be present in social networks, we have to make red carpets.

And personally, I love to shut off the world, so I have little problems with this aspect of this profession. This is what I’m still learning. I am not used to the spotlight, but it is necessary to do so.

And moving from scratch to Gray anatomy, at night, this is not the simplest. I am grateful because there were actors who have been in Los Angeles for 15 years and still awaiting the role of their lives.

For me, it was difficult, and what made me feel better was to hang my family and loved ones in France. When I am in my family, I remember who I am and that helps me to manage public life.

At the moment you never shot for a French project. Is this what you want to do?

Yes, this is what I really want to do. I built myself in Los Angeles, but in the end, people do not know that I am French. But I love to work in France. I miss a lot.

This does not mean that I want to stop working in Los Angeles, I want to do both. But I miss French humor. And films and a series of authors. For me this is the future.

According to artificial intelligence, I think there will be many blockbusters in the United States. What inspires us inspires us, tells us and replaces it, I think it will happen in independent performances. This is the future and I want to be part of it. And instinctively, I really want to make a comedy.

Find two episodes of Gray’s anatomy this Wednesday, June 18, at 9:10 pm. On TF1.