End of applause for life is more beautiful. While France 3 will broadcast the last episode of its famous series this Friday, November 18, after almost 20 years on the air, images of the last scene of the program have been revealed.
Broadcast in preview by pure meansthese videos are taken from the documentary The great adventure of Plus belle la vie, co-directed by Anne-Sophie Dobetzky and Raphael Monégier. It will be broadcast following the last episode on the public channel this Friday.
And for this final sequence, it was the actors Laurent Kérusoré, Elodie Varlet and Joakim Latzko who had the difficult task of closing the series, after 18 seasons and more than 4,500 episodes. A scene put in a box at the Le Marci bar, on September 29, not without emotion for the actors present on the set.
“For the last clapperboard, I kissed everyone before shooting because I knew we only had five minutes left of togetherness,” explains Laurent Kérusoré in the France 3 documentary.
“It’s a series finale”
The actor, who has played the character of Thomas since the first season of Life is more beautiful he even admits to having tried various techniques to postpone as long as possible the fateful moment of the final applause.
“I made a mistake in the text so that the pleasure would last, then I said that I had a problem with the microphone, so I added a few minutes, but the director told me: ‘Come on Laurent, whatever happens, we will do it.’ you have to finish it,'” he specifies.
And to add with emotion: “For the first time in 18 years of filming, the first assistant director did not say ‘It’s the end of the day’ but ‘It’s the series finale’”.
If the released images only show a few fragments, this final sequence was later applauded for long minutes in a crowded Mistral square. All the technicians, historical actors and people in charge of the series had gathered to greet the last moments of this soap opera that will have marked the French television scene.
“This Mistral bar changed my life. […] We have changed the lives of millions of people, we can be very proud of it!” Laurent Kérusoré concludes tearfully, to applause from the Plus belle la vie team.
Source: BFM TV
