The final of STAT, Thursday night, was as exciting as the season. Emmanuelle (Suzanne Clément) and Jacob (Lou-Pascal Tremblay) team up to rescue the two children kidnapped by their father, in a story unfortunately similar to that of little Norah and Romy Carpentier.
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When one of the children became a victim of pneumothorax after his father’s vehicle collided with a bus and the latter threatened them with a kitchen knife, Emmanuelle and Jacob had to intervene with the means at hand. After her gesture was successful and the father was arrested, Emmanuelle told Jacob: “I don’t know why life is so eager to remind us that we are a good team.”
But one day she might regret saying those kind words, because immediately afterwards we remembered the moment Jacob showed up at Emmanuelle’s apartment. It was his spouse François (Daniel Parent) who opened the door for him the same evening he fell from the balcony to find his death… François’ death, as we recently learned, has nothing to do with suicide . Does that mean Jacob threw François into the void? We know that François witnessed the suicide of Jacob’s mother’s patient, Julie Faubert (Isabelle Brouillette), and that she wanted to cover up the affair.
We’ll have to wait until September to learn more about this story, as well as about Gabriel (Jean-Nicolas Verreault) who “miraculously” woke up after being unplugged.
Intensity stimulates Suzanne Clément
Suzanne Clément had “a huge but really trippy year” with emergency doctor Emmanuelle St-Cyr, she told agency QMI on the morning of the final’s broadcast. The naturalness of his game was praised, which earned him a smile.
“The realism aspect intrigues me a lot and it’s a very stimulating show!” she pointed out.
Stimulating is the right word, especially since her character is complex, which turns out to be cute to her. Emmanuelle has a difficult past, marked by the violence of her father Jacques (Raymond Cloutier); Her husband François was killed and she likes to put herself in danger, especially with her sexuality.
Pages and pages to memorize
As if memorizing “the equivalent of a feature film every week” wasn’t enough, she also shot Longing last fall and is currently on the set of the English-language series The Sticky Amazon Prime with Guillaume Cyr.
Suzanne Clément took a 10-day vacation to Bali after wrapping up filming for STAT and will soon be heading to Europe to film a Netflix series, which she can’t talk about at the moment.
No time to be unemployed for Marie-Andrée Labbé
Marie-Andrée Labbé is not unemployed either. She wrote the 120 episodes of STAT alone and, after a three-week hiatus, continued writing the third season of Sans Rendez-vous. After that, she’ll take a few days off, then in early June she’ll begin working on the scripts for STAT’s second season, which begins filming in mid-July.
Was the past year tough? “I prefer writing, so I don’t do violence to myself,” says the author, who admits to living under pressure every week, relying heavily on the experience of Fabienne Larouche, the screenwriter and producer of ICI Télé, to do it every day . “We don’t always agree, but we talk. On the creative level it is always in motion.
She is also intoxicated by her relationship with Suzanne Clément. “Suzanne goes along with everything. As I began watching the scenes, her understanding of the character added an extra layer of depth, complexity, and interest; I fed on his very energetic Emmanuelle who is almost always hopping.”
Marie-Andrée Labbé says she needs to be “ready” for next season and develop a lot of material, especially anything related to the death of François.
New characters will also appear. “There are some stories in the bank that I don’t want to tell at the moment because I would need another specialist. We realized there was room for new characters.”