The good spirits were contagious around the table Wednesday as the cast of “La petite vie” gathered to confirm their forthcoming return in six new original episodes.
The author Claude Meunier, who plays in the cult comedy Ti-Mé/Popa, was joined by Josée Deschênes (Lison/Creton), Bernard Fortin (Rod), Rémy Girard (Pogo), Marc Labrèche (Rénald/Pinson), Diane Lavallée (Thérèse ), Marc Messier (Réjean), Sylvie Potvin (Linda) and Guylaine Tremblay (Caro) to announce this “gift” that the band will receive, namely to play together again on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of this series, which has already attracted four million followers in front of her television.
“Everyone wanted to do it,” says Claude Meunier and speaks of the excitement of reading the new texts together in view of the shooting planned for mid-April.
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Only missing Serge Thériault aka Moman, who declined the offer to reprise his role alongside his friend Claude Meunier, with whom he performed the 400 recordings on stage in Paul et Paul and Ding et Dong.
“Serge Thériault will not be there, but Moman will be there all the time,” said Claude Meunier, especially in the first episode, rightly called “L’absente”. “Mom is present in our hearts. Moman is very present in the year, it motivates all directions of each episode.
Mr. Meunier does not want to go into the situation of his old accomplice too much.
“I won’t talk about Serge today because I think it’s up to him to talk about it when he gets a taste for it.” According to the latest news, the 74-year-old artist is the subject of the documentary “due to severe depression”. Outside Serge Outside is bound to his home.
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Two years pregnancy
It was the co-president of the Avanti Groupe, Monique Lamoureux, who two years ago suggested that Claude Meunier go back to work on his computer in order to lay more delicious dialogues from “La petite vie” for the 30th anniversary. “I thought it was over,” said Claude Meunier, who ended the project after the original four seasons, “because it was a lot of work” to write alone, he also felt “been there,” even if that’s the Case was characters never stopped inhabiting it.
The latter, of course, will have aged in the new episodes, but we will find the same sets, the same flamboyant costumes, the laughter of the audience in the studio (no, we never used cane laughter, director Pierre Séguin vowed) and there will be a guest, one of the hallmarks of the comedy that aired from 1993 to 1996, along with the three special episodes. The covers, which have never stopped for the last few decades, continue to attract hundreds of thousands of viewers every week.
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Claude Meunier says Moman’s fate will come as a surprise. As for his character Ti-Mé, he is moping and missing his wife, with whom he slept standing up. Rénald is living an “agonizing retirement”, Lison has landed a “side job” in advertising, Réjean “is from a strange place”, Thérèse is very spiritual, Pogo is beginning to have memory problems, Caro has just returned from away and Rod had one too bad time. “Ultimately, I just followed the aging characters, who keep their characteristics, they live, in my mind they exist,” suggested Claude Meunier.
Produced by Avanti-Toast, the six new episodes of “La petite vie” are directed by Pierre Séguin and Josée Fortier, two pillars from the start. They will be available on ICI TOU.TV EXTRA during the 2023-2024 season.
Said…
Claude Meunier, author and performer of Ti-Mé / Popa on the absence of Serge Thériault, to whom he promised to send the new lyrics: “Well, it’s a sadness. I spoke to Serge not long ago and it’s sad, then he finds it sad himself. But he’s not there and I can’t go into detail. But life goes on, family goes on.
Pierre Seguin, Director: “We’re going to shoot two more times in front of two different audiences, in the studio, with lighting that can’t be as targeted as in the cinema because the rods are moving. We’re staying in the American sitcom that’s always been made. […] The gathering might get a little tighter because we’re all a little bit different.” He added, “We all have a Réjean, a Lison, a Caro in our family, but we never are!”
Marc Labrèche, aka Rénald / Pinson: “The timing is good, the intentions are good. […] Six and a half hours is just perfect, you don’t stretch the sauce.
Marc Messier, aka Rejean: “The fact that Claude is writing something that’s happening nowadays, but in the context of ‘La petite vie’, which also has a timeless side because it’s so 10th grade, is very funny, I can tell you it’s the same funny how it was.”
Josée Deschênes, aka Lison / Creton: “It’s a gift that we give and that we give to ourselves!” She added, “I heard a new word that means ‘Cretonner’ or all dress the same color!”
Bernard Fortin, aka Rod: “I’ve been told for 30 years, ‘Do you want us to do your laundry?'”
Diane Lavallée, aka Thérèse “Streak Wheat from India Potatoes”: “We all love each other, it’s a family”