Louise Laparé has been discreetly appearing on the small screen for 10 years, but she returns through the front door by playing former Sainte-Piété sect member Manon Lussier, the mother of Élisabeth (Marie-Joanne Boucher), in the TVA series ), plays.
The 73-year-old actress underwent surgery on both hips in spring 2022 and describes herself as “bionic”. In radiant form, she continues to fish regularly with her “friend” Suzanne Beaudet and in a month it will be 44 years of sharing her everyday life in the countryside with the actor Gaston Lepage, far from the hustle and bustle of the city. .
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“It starts with a good will, we have to have the will to go a long way together, and it starts with a lot of love, and it’s still a lot of love, that’s the great thing,” he said. She trusted the QMI agency in the complicity of her life partner.
Ten years after her last TV project, Louise Laparé is finally back in the series My Best Friend with a strong role. In recent years she has hosted a fishing show on UnisTV and a cooking show on TFO, she has also filmed for André Forcier and has worked a lot as a coach on film sets, but now the game puts her back in the spotlight with a character that does not go unnoticed .
A “troubled arc”
Louise Laparé immediately accepted the role when she discovered Manon Lussier’s Troubled Arc.
“I’ve never played in this shadow before and I liked it straight away. My character is shaped by life and was interned in Pinel for years. She is a strong woman, but unbalanced. The texts are fascinating and I always look forward to reading the next ones,” she admits.
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She devours her own scenes and those of her younger character, played by Larissa Corriveau.
“It allows me to immerse myself in both eras and extract as much information and emotional material as possible, because Manon experienced extremely disturbing things. She was married before joining the cult but left everything after falling madly in love with the guru. “The search for the truth with an unbalanced character makes it particularly interesting and the line is fine,” added the one who describes Sorcières as a “big challenge” in her career.
“It’s all in the details, in the intricacies, in the unspoken and in the joys and sorrows of this human experience.” Imbalance can go very far. I spoke to the director Myriam Verreault about it and she told me from the start: Have fun!”
A moving and disturbing first scene
Manon appears in Witches this Monday when her daughter Beth visits her in her apartment after years of silence. The woman appears disoriented, but is nonetheless moved to see her again. She says that she has been rejected by everyone except Gaétane (Hélène Grégoire), who has found her temporary home. As soon as Beth tells her about her half-sisters Joanne (Céline Bonnier) and Agnès (Noémie O’Farrell), Manon wakes up to her memories of the cult, setting the stage for a scene that is as moving as it is disturbing.
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She erupts with joy when her daughter mentions the red-haired child found at the foot of the Sainte-Piété Falls, at the start of the intrigue of lead authors Germain Larochelle and Marie-Josée Ouellet. And she goes crazy and even cries out for a miracle when Beth mentions Louise’s (Alexa-Jeanne Dubé) prophecy. In short, we are not yet done researching to understand all the implications of this very fascinating and captivating story.
The Sorcières series, produced by Amalga in collaboration with Quebecor Content, is presented every Monday on TVA at 8 p.m. We can watch it on TVA+.