In the family on the M6: “I was a little scared” … Charlie Bruno (Roxanne) recalls Cader’s departure and Milo’s arrival.

AlloCiné: En Famille celebrates its 10th anniversary this summer on the M6. How do you feel about this crazy adventure?

Charlie Bruno : It is hard to understand that ten years have passed. It happened very quickly. And most importantly, we never doubted that this series would last ten years, and we had so much fun filming it all that time without running out of steam. So we feel a real surprise. And the better. When the producer told us “ten years have passed”, I think none of us understood.

Gerem Credeville : I arrived just a short while ago, and it’s true that I quickly realized that there was still a lot of news among all the actors. We don’t feel tired. Everyone knows each other and enjoys playing together. And I was integrated quite quickly. I’m excited because it’s always hard to get into a group that’s known each other for ten years. But the whole team received me very well.

Did you two hit it off right away when you filmed your first scenes together for season 10 last year?

Charlie Bruno: With respect, yes.

Jeremy Credeville: But tell me earlier that I had a cold during the casting. I don’t remember, maybe I was stressed.

Charlie Bruno: It’s true, you were not at all sympathetic in the casting (laughs). But we still felt the potential for empathy behind this cold and very closed side. And then you knew Benjamin Goode, our writer-director, who said, “Look, he’s a great mate, he’s really cool.” And it went very well from the first day of shooting. We bonded very quickly.

Gérémy Crédeville: What’s great is that you can put yourself in the character. Authors are not closed. They tell us “Have fun, if it means the same thing, let’s go.” It’s very nice. So I start doing some more jokes on the set.

Charlie, ask the writers of En Famille to write a new love story for Roxanne after Cader leaves?

Charlie Bruno: Not at all. I was a firm supporter of Roxanne’s celibacy. Not when they decided he needed to find someone. But when Tarek Budali left the series, they already wanted to start a new life for Roxanne, and I found it all inconsistent with what we set up.

For six years we have formed a very close, almost brotherly couple. And I realized that even for people watching, it was hard to identify with someone who sold a very strong couple and then suddenly moved on and found a new guy. I didn’t believe it.

At that time, as an actor, I really did not see how to restore the relationship of complicity, the desire to play with a new partner. I talked to authors about this during one of our writing workshops. I didn’t want Roxanne and Cader’s story to be ruined all of a sudden. That would be super brutal.

That’s why two years passed between Cader’s departure and Milo’s arrival in Roxanne’s life. First there was Cadre’s move to New Zealand, with a long-distance relationship. Then we discussed separation. And then it was decided that Roxanne would meet someone.

And I admit I was a little scared. I was very good with Tarek. I spent the first casting of the series with him. We had a lot of fun, we were very different in terms of work, but we got along great. So I was afraid it would be less good. But at the end, when they suggested that Milo’s character come in, we tried a lot of things, we went around Roxanne’s celibacy a little bit, and I was really happy for Jeremy.

Before Milo arrived, Roxanne became close to one of her neighbors, played by Jan Sundberg, in Season 9. We thought he might be her new suitor, but it turned out not to be?

Charlie Bruno: No, it didn’t work. There were a few of those directions that didn’t work very well. For this new love story, it was necessary to find someone extremely different to develop something new in Roxanne. The character of the neighbor did not go away at all. Roxanne couldn’t be with a dark man like him, it didn’t fit the Roxanne we’ve known for ten years.

Is Milo more integrated into the Le Kervelec family in season 11?

Jeremy Credeville: Yes, Milo finally meets his parents. I am well settled in the series. I saw the whole family, we made a sketch together during the family photo. It is important. Milo is there.

What can you tell us about what to expect in these new episodes?

Charlie Bruno: For me as an actor, it’s nice that we made Milo a great gentleman who is very cool, smiling, friendly, patient, kind. He doesn’t have that many flaws. And it softens Roxanne’s psychotic side.

It’s great when you play someone who’s in the military in the head, and suddenly it cracks a little bit, it becomes a little bit cooler. Keeping the essence of the character. I like it very much. He creates new things for Roxanne.

And besides that, we will see twins in the new season. The play features two slightly older actors who are eight years old. They are really playing, having fun. They are no longer just a wall you bounce the ball against, they become real characters.

Gérémy Crédeville: It was funny on set, they offered things in the game that we felt they really wanted.

Will Milo find himself in a real stepfather position compared to Hugo and Diego?

Jeremy Credeville: Milo is a 35-year-old teenager. Still young at heart, nothing serious, everything cool. And suddenly he gets two new friends.

Do you already have any wishes for your characters in the upcoming season?

Charlie Bruno: It’s funny because we always have wishes, but when we finish the season. We have explored a lot of new things, new ways, played with new partners and so we are coming to the end of the season and we still have wishes for next season. This is what keeps the streak going.

And then, sometimes we say to ourselves: “We haven’t played much in all seven this season, it would be good if we build everything up.” So yeah, there’s always a craving, obviously.