Nico Racicot has created a gaming fantasy by immersing himself in the world of director Frédérik D’Amours, the great man of Black Lake. From an early age he wanted to be an actor because he loved fantasy and horror films, balanced ingredients in the Club Illico series.
When he was younger, he particularly appreciated Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element, starring Milla Jovovich and Bruce Willis. He also experienced strong emotions with Ridley Scott’s “Alien” or the film “The Werewolf of London”, a common reference also with Frédérik D’Amours.
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“It was so much fun talking to Frédérik on set. We had a connection. He’s a kid when he talks about science fiction, werewolf stuff, or his references and inspirations. It feeds you tremendously in the imagination and in the story that you are in. It gives you a lot of options to play with,” said Nico Racicot.
In this second season, which premieres on Thursday October 26th at Club illico, Nico Racicot plays a journalist named Éric who comes to Lac-Noir to produce a podcast. Eric is curious and mysterious and, according to his interpreter, hides things that do not hide the fact that he is about to put himself in danger.
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“He’s a podcaster who has a fascination with gore and mystery stuff. This is not the first podcast he has done about strange phenomena in a village. His audience is interested in these puzzles. Eric attracts attention at a time when he shouldn’t, as Lac-Noir experienced tragedy in Season 1 (Editor’s note: multiple murders and disappearances). He doesn’t get there without thinking about it, he has doubts about certain things and needs to see what’s going on.
Nobody in the village wants to talk to him, except the policewoman Valérie Roberge (Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin), with whom he “develops a certain complicity” because they come from the same family.
On the set of Nuit Blanche 2 this fall
Nico Racicot reunited with his Nuit Blanche comrades for the filming of the second season, two years after Radio-Canada filmed the plog of the series written by Julie Hivon and produced by Pixcom after broadcasting the first 12 episodes. He reprises the role of Aidrian Flanagan and this time he evolves in the 1980s, with the story alternating between past and present in this Pixcom production, now streaming on Prime Video and Séries Plus.
We knew Nico Racicot (left) from the series “L’heure bleue”, which aired on TVA from January 2017 to November 2021. We see him here with his playmates Mustapha Aramis and Frédéric Lemay. The Quebec Journal
Nico Racicot will also star in À coeur bleue, he will appear on the big screen in L’Ouragan Fuck You Tabarnak and this fall he is making a short film with Mathieu Blanchard, with whom he plays a gay couple.
Still inhabited by Arnaud
The 38-year-old actor continues to be driven by his role as a young man who falls victim to an unnecessary attack and becomes a wandering and drug addict in the TVA series “Anna and Arnaud.”
Director Louis Bélanger gives instructions to Nico Racicot and Guylaine Tremblay on the set of “Anna et Arnaud” in Montreal in June 2022. Joël Lemay / QMI Agency
“I went with Arnaud to places I had never been before. It was the first time I had such a big role in a series, 40 days of shooting was like a marathon. My body lived this role. It was difficult to let Arnaud go because it was as if I had taken on all his sufferings. Arnaud was very tense and the effects on me lasted longer than I would have liked. And because people still talk to me about it, it’s still very present.”