Although we will always associate Catherine Trudeau with Lyne-la-pas-fine The unconquerablesit’s in the series The perfect moments that she landed her first leading role on television, more than 25 years after her debut in 4 ½.
“The Perfect Moments” comes to an end this Wednesday with just two and a half seasons left on the clock.
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Catherine Trudeau is a good player and understands the decision, especially knowing in hindsight how Quebec television and media in general are weakened by the dominance of American web giants. Hundreds of jobs were lost last year.
“I might have continued for 10 years, but I felt that we weren’t finished with what we had to say with this series,” emphasized the person who played Gemini for this role to the QMI agency best lead role won: Annual Drama Series, last September.
“People talk to me a lot about the series they watch with their family, like I did when I listened to Des dames de cœur with my mother. It has brought many generations together and people tell me these are issues they identify with. I think it’s good for the television landscape and it’s really good for me to be a part of it.”
Just in time for the series’ grand finale, Catherine (Catherine Trudeau) and Alex (Gabriel Sabourin) are back together. PHOTO BY VIVIEN GAUMAND, PROVIDED BY TVA
The very final scene of Perfect Moments was filmed on June 21 at Laurier Park on the Plateau. In it, Alex (Gabriel Sabourin), who recently returned with Catherine, struggles to explain why she decides to adopt Kevin (Eliot Dupras) without even consulting him. Catherine has to take care of others, explains her interpreter, who is happy that lead author Marc Robitaille has put the couple back on the right path.
“I was happy that they got back together, that’s what I wanted,” said the 48-year-old artist. Despite everything they had been through and all the pain they caused each other, they raised three children together, including one who was not Alex’s. I love Gabriel and I really missed the times when I wasn’t filming with him. […] What I also missed in the last season were the scenes with the nuclear family, with Alex and the three children.
Some criticized the series’ slow pacing and lack of twists, but for others it made sense to stick with this close-knit clan that resembled them. There was a lot of humor in the project and actors who deserved more ice time, like Myriam De Verger, Étienne Pilon and Mounia Zahzam.
Catherine (Catherine Trudeau) and her friend and business partner Stéphanie (Myriam De Verger) in the series “Perfect Moments”. PHOTO BY VIVIEN GAUMAND, PROVIDED BY TVA
A finale full of hope for the future
The Thomas family is recovering as best they can from the death of Georges (Denis Bernard) in Wednesday’s grand finale.
Philippe (Jean-François Pronovost) and Catherine (Catherine Trudeau) unknowingly have a final conversation with their father Georges (Denis Bernard), who dies in the penultimate episode of the series, “Perfect Moments.” The grand finale will be presented this Wednesday. PHOTO BY VIVIEN GAUMAND, PROVIDED BY TVA
Three months have passed, allowing us to focus on the next steps for his children Catherine, Louis (Émile Proulx-Cloutier), Philippe (Jean-François Pronovost) and Mila (Chanelle Foo Lam), as well as his sweet Judith ( Marie-Thérèse Fortin).
The Thomases prepare to fly to Greece, the land of their ancestors. Catherine has already stayed there, Louis and Annie (Bianca Gervais) were supposed to get married there and now we want to scatter Georges’ ashes there.
The actors Jean-François Pronovost, Catherine Trudeau, Denis Bernard, Marie-Thérèse Fortin and Émile Proulx-Cloutier met last Friday, May 12, in Longueuil to film scenes from the third and final season of the series “Les seconds perfect”. to rotate. ” Joël Lemay / QMI Agency
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Catherine, who also decides to hide a big secret, takes on a new professional challenge tailored to her needs. She was unable to speak to her father about her famous novel before his death, but he left her comments on the manuscript, which is a true gift from heaven. Will she publish the book? “I don’t think she’s here anymore. Publishing it as such would be like trying to bring the past into existence. I think she could write a different story,” said Catherine Trudeau, who will watch the finale with her playmates at director François Bégin’s house.
Theater, children’s literature and fiction
There are no further television roles planned for Catherine Trudeau, but she will appear on stage alongside Marc Messier in the play “The Father” on TNM from March 19 to April 13, 2024. The third volume of the children’s book series “Folle école” will be published in February, for which Jean-Philippe Morasse will sign the illustrations. She is also working on a fiction project.
The series’ conclusion, Perfect Moments, airs this Wednesday at 8 p.m. on TVA.