On the set of the final season of Six Degrees last Friday at the Collègue Notre-Dame in Montreal, where the actors were filming their very final scenes, the atmosphere was festive — with a touch of sadness.
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For Noah Parker and Léanne Désilets, the interpreters of Léon and Doris, it is the end of an important cycle that marked their young careers.
“For me there is a before and after Leon. It’s a big part of my professional and personal life, so yes, I’m sad to be leaving. He’s a character that taught me to have an ethic in my quest to do what I love to do, which is to approach a character,” he told QMI Agency.
Noah Parker, 24, left his role in the series Les Bracelets Rouges last year with “great sorrow” to pursue filming in the next Philippe Lesage film. In Six Degrees, his first title role on the small screen, he defends a character “with many facets and things to explore” that Léon only sees with a six-degree vision.
In this final season, Léon’s heart will be beating for Sabine (Sarah Cantin) and the young man will support his girlfriend Florence (Marine Johnson) after her lung transplant. Florence is very important to him as she was his first real girlfriend after he left the cocoon he was raised in by his late mother Marianne (Catherine Trudeau).
“Léon takes off and has matured,” said Noah.
Léon will have his first book out, but he’ll be entitled to a lesson in humility, we promise, in the 13 new episodes directed by Thomas Soto, who replaced his friend Hervé Baillargeon. The latter is in fact busy filming The Pearls, a series that will soon start on Club illico.
“These are two very different directing styles; Hervé has confidence and gives the actors freedom, while Thomas has very specific ideas. It’s like two projects but with the same identity,” said Ricargo interpreter Anthony Therrien, who will direct season two of Lac-Noir for Club illico in April.
On Friday we mainly boxed the first scene of the 13th and final episode of “Six Degrees” while Antoine (Simon Boulerice) hands out invitations to the Meritas Gala and worries about Léon’s absence. Doris is involved in the lemon award ceremony.
Speaking of Doris, her interpreter Léanne Désilets is just finishing her film studies and is also going through a change with the completion of “Six Degrees” and the other series that have kept her busy in recent years. The Complicated Life of Léa Olivier”, on Club illico.
Simon Boulerice more and more on screen
Simon Boulerice, who plays Professor Antoine in ‘Six Degrees,’ admits he’s written more and more scenes over the seasons, as if he wasn’t too daring to go to screen at first. .
“I tried to go there subtly,” he underscored with a burst of laughter. I’ve got 11 days of shooting this season and it’s also the best of my life because I know all the characters and feel comfortable in my role.
He may not give up on organizing a screen reunion for Six Degrees “if the characters are still inhabiting it in a few years,” as we did for the 20th anniversary of A guy, a girl with four new episodes .
The theme of transition is also essential for Simon Boulerice, who has just completed C’estannée là on Télé-Québec after five seasons. He’s writing another series and has a thousand and one projects, as you might expect, although he’s less bubbly these days. “These are bubbly years, so it’s okay to put me down for a little bit!”
The third season of Six Degrees, produced by Encore Television, will be released this summer on ICI TOU.TV EXTRA.