Author and comedian Kim Lévesque-Lizotte will play the young Monique Mercure in the 1960s See you then, Marianne. The series, which will air on Crave Canada in 2024, tells the legendary love story between singer Leonard Cohen and Marianne Ihlen.
If Kim Lévesque-Lizotte wanted to clarify to the Journal that she only played a “very small role” in “one scene” of this eight-episode series, her Instagram post on Wednesday still piqued the curiosity of many of her 57,400 subscribers.
A merry-go-round of three photos shows her in the guise of her character – the young actress Monique Mercure, who met Marianne at a party in Montreal – dressed and styled in 1960s style.
“The main actors [l’Américain Alex Wolff, Léonard et la Norvégienne Thea Sofie Loch Naess, Marianne] were great and I think it’s going to be a great, touching series. “It was an extraordinary day with a dream team and ‘REAL’ actors who were more talented and impressive than me,” laughed the one who was on only one day of shooting.
The writer of Before the Crash – a series returning for a second season on television starting 9/11 – explains that she loved her experience and was even “open to other possibilities” in the game.
Her lover and father of her daughter, actor Eric Bruneau, is also part of the cast. He plays the role of Robert Hershorn, a longtime friend of Leonard Cohen. Macha Grenon plays the artist’s mother, Masha Cohen, who died on November 7, 2016. Musician Patrick Watson portrays a singer who performed for Leonard Cohen on a rooftop.
So Long, Marianne is a Norwegian, Greek and Canadian co-production. We know that Montreal had a particularly strong influence on the life of the poet who was born there and has always had a close connection to the metropolis. We’ll see iconic places in the city throughout the series, such as McGill University, where Cohen studied, the Toque! and Greenspot and the Lords Street Bridge.