This Wednesday, February 22 ends L’Abîme on France 2. A captivating series on which Sara Mortensen and Gil Alma had a lot of fun… even if some days of filming were complicated!
Actors appreciated by the public (Sara Mortensen And Gil Alma), a captivating plot… On paper, The Abyss, a six-episode mini-series offered on France 2 (our opinion), had the ingredients for success. And it is clear that for the time being, the public channel already has something to smile about. Indeed, the first two episodes on February 8 brought together 4.35 million curious people, for 19.6% of the public present in front of their television screen, allowing the public channel to place itself at the top of the audiences of the evening. The following week, episodes 3 and 4 brought together 3.4 million fans for a 17.3% market share. Whether The Abyss loses a million onlookers, it retains its leadership.
This complicated scene to shoot for Sara Mortensen and Gil Alma…
A fourth important episode for the plot, since Elsa (alias Sara Mortensen) finally confessed to Laurent (Gil Alma – who returned to his crossing of the desert) all the truth about his past, in a key moment for the sequel. But what viewers could not guess is that this scene was shot in particularly complicated conditions, as the actress told our colleagues from Allociné. Indeed, these sequences were shot in a particularly cramped space, under an unbearable heat. “In the cabin of the boat, when Elsa tells her man what happened in his life, it was 40 degrees that day…” explains Lola Dewaere’s sidekick in Astrid and Raphaëlle (their frenzied reunion). “So we were a whole film crew in this little boat, where there is no room…“
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“The boom operator almost fainted!”
And this lack of space has, of course, had repercussions: “Our cameraman was in the bed between us, with his knees touching us! The boom operator was upstairs with a large black cloth over his head to block out the light… He almost fainted! At one point his pole fell because he had heatstroke! We were all dripping with heat and we were close to suffocating, glued to each other…” And to add in a laugh: “But it’s nice, it creates links!”
