Between its credits with heady music and its idyllic setting, the series Under the sun captivated millions of viewers in the years 90-2000. Starring the fates of three young women, Laure (Bénédicte Delmas), Caroline (Adeline Blondieau) and Jessica (Tonya Kinzinger), the series has 480 episodes in total and a huge audience. Today, we take you behind the scenes in five anecdotes.
1. The golden rule: good weather every episode
You thought you had seen it all in terms of the craziest filming secrets of your favorite series ? Under the sun has not said its last word. The production crew for the soap opera had a golden rule: it had to be sunny all the time on screen. For that, they had their little tips and tricks. Pascal Breton, co-creator of the series, revealed to the Swiss daily Time in May 2000: “Everything we write can be shot either indoors or outdoors depending on the weather. “
Before explaining: “If the weather is not nice, we go to a studio with beach decor, which I built twenty meters from the real beach. When we shoot in a villa, if the weather is nice, we go to the edge of the swimming pool, facing the sea, otherwise, we enter the house, where we always turn facing the sea. he atmosphere of Saint-Tropez under the sun and the viewer has the distinct impression that the weather is nice all the time. “
“The viewer has the distinct impression that the weather is good all the time” in “Sous Le Soleil”, and the technical team makes sure of this in each episode. © TF1
2. Frédéric Deban was almost run over by Brigitte Bardot’s car on the set
Frédéric Owing to Good almost died on the set from Under the sun. In his autobiography entitled Under the sun … not exactly and published in February 2016, the actor reveals that Brigitte Bardot, resident of Saint-Tropez, did not get along well with the film crews of the series. Worse, she even almost crushed the interpreter of Grégory Lacroix with his car one day.
He tells : “I arrive at a crossroads, I find myself face to face with another machine, driven by a kind of hysteric who drives at 1000 km / h at the wheel of a green Mehari goose poo, genus Cruella in The 101 Dalmatians. I brake like crazy and skid in the gravel, spreading out all the way and ending my race in the ditch. ” Frédéric Deban comes out with a few scratches, until the next day when he relives the scene.
“The Mehari and the vociferous shrew tumble at the speed of a Formula 1 and, for the second time in two days, I find myself in the ditch. ” remembers the actor from Under the sun. Here again, more fear than harm for Frédéric Deban.
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Frédéric Deban plays Grégory Lacroix, the first love of Laure (Bénédicte Delmas), in “Sous Le Soleil”. © TF1
3. The real reason for Adeline Blondieau’s departure
Adeline Blondieau was one of the headliners of Under the sun, where she played the role of Caroline Drancourt. She played this character until season 12 and then returned in season 14.e and last season as a guest. The actress chose to stop playing in the series for very specific reasons, as she explained on the show. It Starts Today in May 2020.
Adeline Blondieau said: “I quit after 14 years Under the Sun because I find that, humanly, filming is very difficult and it’s a life where you don’t give much to your privacy, that you takes a lot of things – your time, your health, etc. – and nobody really cares. “ Beside that, the actress could not stand to play anymore “A role that spent its time in suffering”.
It details: “All day long you do scenes where you get manhandled, insulted, where there’s a terrible atmosphere, because all the scenes are heavy […] but you’re heavy! Even the team was weighed down. ” Adeline Blondieau asked the production to change that, to no avail. “They told me no, that I was boring. ” remembers the star of Under the Sun. This is one of the biggest scandals in French series.
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Adeline Blondieau, the interpreter of Caroline in “Under The Sun”, was tired of playing “a role which spent its time in suffering”. © TF1
4. Bénédicte Delmas stopped her acting career after “Under the Sun”
Propelled to the front of the stage thanks to her role as Laure Olivier in Under the sun, Bénédicte Delmas did not support the notoriety. Interviewed by the magazine Leisure TV in 2018, the actress revealed to have “Very badly lived” this exhibition. “Today at 46 years old, with hindsight, I can say that I lived it very badly. But I did not allow myself to live it badly, because I told myself that I had a huge chance, that many projects did not work, that I had the chance to shoot in a series acclaimed by the public. It’s the public that makes us work ”, she confided.
Bénédicte Delmas realized that she preferred to work behind rather than in front of the camera. After making episodes of Under the sun, the star ended her acting career after the series ended in 2008. She focused on her career as a director, including working on series More beautiful life, Cain or Clem. Bénédicte Delmas also directed a few episodes of Under the Saint-Tropez sun, the series derived from Under the sun with Nadège Lacroix.
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Bénédicte Delmas, who plays Laure in “Sous Le Soleil”, “lived very badly” with the notoriety linked to the series. © TF1
5. Tonya Kinzinger was “very afraid” of the return of the series
In March 2013, the series returns under the title Under the sun from Saint-Tropez. If Adeline Blondieau resumes her role of Caroline Drancourt, this is not the case for Bénédicte Delmas and Tonya Kinzinger. Asked about it while on the show The Mag on NRJ12, the interpreter of Jessica Lowry revealed the reasons for his non-return.
“I think I went around the character, Tonya Kinzinger confessed. There are several reasons. There is also that Under the sun stopped when it stopped on TF1, while we still had a huge audience. We stopped at the top what. And I thought to myself that, kinda like Desperate Housewives was able to stop in time, I like the idea that we stopped in time. And I was very afraid of the return. I think they do very, very well, but it’s not the same series for me. “ The actress’s reaction is understandable when you see the number of failed reboots of cult series.
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Tonya Kinzinger did not want to resume her role of Jessica in “Under the Sun of Saint-Tropez” because she thought she had “made the tour of the character”. © TF1
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