Was Lorie Pester pregnant on the set of Mysteries of the Duchess?

While TF1 viewers will see Ireland and Scotland compete in the Rugby World Cup, those on France 3 will have the opportunity to (re)see the fiction, The Duchess’s Mysteries. Broadcast for the first time in September 2022, it features Lorie Pester, who had just left Tomorrow belongs to us and had in the meantime given birth early to a little girl, Nina. In this fiction, she plays Maud Artuis, a widowed gendarmerie captain who is eight months pregnant. With the help of private detective Lucien Labeguerri, played by Jérémy Banster (seen in Such a big sun), she investigates the death of a sophrologist married to a duchess 32 years his senior. There is no shortage of suspects in this open-air Cluedo. Very fit, the actress displays a well-rounded stomach in fiction. But was Lorie Pester really pregnant on set?

The Mysteries of the Duchess (France 3): Was Lorie pregnant at the time of filming?

Unlike her character, Lorie Pester wasn’t really pregnant on The Mysteries of the Duchess. For the purposes of the TV film, the actress wore a foam stomach. Which brought back memories. “It was fun playing a pregnant woman after my pregnancyremembers the actress, I had the impression of prolonging this moment a little and finding familiar sensations again. I had a foam stomach, which was placed on me every morning, it’s very quick but after a while, it weighs a little, and I found the bad postures of a pregnant woman. By the end, my back was starting to hurt.“. Lorie was also able to talk baby with her former partner from Tomorrow belongs to us, Kenza-Saïb-Couton, also a young mother. “I was very happy to find her. She is a good actress and a beautiful person. We were able to share moments together when we weren’t filming and obviously, we talked about our children” laughs the actress.

The Mysteries of the Duchess (France 3): Lorie “in tears” to have been separated from her daughter for filming

If she enjoyed filming this TV film in Ruelle-sur-Touvre, a suburb of Angoulême, in Charente, the filming was sometimes difficult for Lorie Pester who had to be separated for the first time from her little Nina. “Originally, my parents were supposed to accompany me and my daughter during filming, but they had a setbackexplains the actress, my daughter therefore spent her time between the nursery, her grandparents and her dad.” Which led to some painful moments of separation. “I only saw her on weekends and it was very hard. On Sunday evening, when I had to go to the station, she was in tears, she clung to me. My God, I was in tears in the taxiremembers Lorie Pester, at the same time, even though I am a mother, I want to continue my job. I also want to show him that it’s okay to do what you love. And then, I knew that she was well looked after and that two seconds after I left, she was going to play and it would be over. It was me who was more in tears for half an hour.”