Rose-Marie Perreault se joint à la quotidienne «Antigang» et porte le nouveau thriller «Anticosti» de Séries Plus

Rose-Marie Perrault shines on our screens like few other Quebec actresses.

In addition to starring in two films released this fall, A million secrets, a thousand dangers etc. Skin to skinshe's starring in a new detective series Anticostithe first episode of which will air this Wednesday at 21:00 on Séries Plus, and will soon appear in the daily edition. Anti-gangismShe told the QMI agency about this.

ABOUTAnti-gangismshe “can't say too much” except that her character “joins the anti-gang brigade” of the series written by Nadine Bismuth and produced by Aetios, the company of Fabienne Larouche and Michel Trudeau.

“I'm a new investigator and I'm starting around mid-November,” said the 30-year-old actress, who declined to confirm that her character is replacing Detective Sergeant Carolann Daignault (Karine Gonthier-Hindman) in storylines during her maternity leave.

She was on her third day of filming on Tuesday when we spoke. This contract, she said, was offered to her in recent weeks, when her fall should have been “pretty quiet.”

“You have to come very prepared, and I love the daily pace of filming. Unlike traditional filming, we never expect target. I find it an enriching experience,” added the woman, who has already come into contact with the everyday world through 30 matches etc. Collision.

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IN Anticostiwhose universe immediately resembles the Ile de la Madeleine from the series The Unexpected Detectivefrom illico+, as we immerse ourselves in landscapes that most Quebecers have not witnessed with their own eyes, the actress portrays the author who returns to the island after seven years away.

Her character, Justine, has wounds and is trying to discover her father's identity, information that her mother Sylvie (Hélène Florent) refuses to reveal to her, who doesn't seem very happy to see her again.

Hélène Florent plays a woman who hides the identity of the father of her daughter Justine, played by Rose-Marie Perrault.

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The latter is also involved in the environmental fight against a hotel project that threatens the ecosystem of the site. People are torn between the desire to create wealth by welcoming wealthier tourists and the desire to protect the wildlife around them, years after opposing oil extraction. On the North Shore, there are even members of the First Nations previously involved in the fight against the La Romaine Dam who come to reinforce the barricade erected on the road leading to the property.

It is in this context that Justine returns home, and very quickly tragedy strikes when a lifeless man is found at the foot of a cliff. In this way, an atmosphere of anxiety is created, and we are captivated by Guy Hédoin's thriller, produced by José Vallée of Sphère Média. Mr. Hédouin also co-wrote the script with Dominique Goyer.

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Justine and the local gamekeeper Michael (Olivier Gervais-Courchaine), who acts as the only authority figure on the island since there are no police officers, then begin a civil investigation to find out whether it is indeed a suicide or rather a murder.

“There is something mysterious about Justine and the tone of the play as a whole. Little by little we understand what it is,” said Rose-Marie Perrault.

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“It's a close-knit community, but there are a lot of secrets, things left unsaid, beautiful connections and tangled connections. My character carries a wound, a flaw, and I tried to play her with that level of mystery.”

She filmed in Anticosti for ten days. “We were able to immerse ourselves in places, which obviously adds value to the images. Working on the sound, with the sea and the wind, was a wonderful discovery. We were so well received by people, they helped us a lot with logistics,” noted the one who, in six episodes, abandoned her blonde hair in favor of a dark color, which, according to her, adds a certain severity to her character.