Year zero (M6): does Elisa Erka (Margot) really dance?

In Year zero, the new miniseries, of which M6 is broadcasting two episodes on Tuesday January 3, Elisa Erka plays Margot, a dancer. Did the actress double for the ballet sequences or is it really her doing the spikes?

To start the year, M6 has decided to spoil lovers of French fiction. The channel indeed offers the first two episodes of Year Zero, a fantastic thriller in four episodes with a cast that should largely appeal to the public. In this successful fiction which skilfully plays on two temporalities, a shrink, a cop and an ambulance driver are brought back somehow a year in the past. While Anna and Juliette struggle to avoid the assassination of their respective husbands, Cédric, impatient, tries to win back Margot, a dancer played by Elisa Erka.

Year zero (M6): Does Elisa Erka (Margot) really dance or has she been dubbed?

Cédric is undoubtedly the most endearing character ofYear zero. The one whose trajectory is the most touching. “He’s a boy who doesn’t meet the criteria of beauty but who looks like the people you meet on the street, explains Marc Riso, the interpreter Cédric. He is a paramedic and leads an ordinary life but something extraordinary happens to him: his love story. Going back, he loses the love of his life. He wants to find his fiancée without waiting for the moment of their first meeting. He then enters a sad and destructive spiral. By wanting to provoke things, Cédric will do just the opposite and passes for a pervert with the pretty dancer of whom he misses no rehearsal.

Is it really Elisa Erka, the interpreter of Margot, who peaks? “Yes and no, begins Paul Schmitt, the producer of the M6 ​​series. The sequence where Cédric is on the balcony and where we see a lot of ballet, it is a double. On the other hand, when Cédric watches the end of the spinning from the wings, it is Elisa Erka. She danced as a child and took lessons specifically for the role. The technicality of this part of ballet was such that, to have the best rendering possible, we made the choice to take a dancer. We hesitated to take a dancer but we couldn’t find an actress who was also a dancer. And Elisa was so on screen when she passed her casting, that our choice was quick. And we really don’t regret it.”

Sequences shot at the Théâtre du Gymnase… in Marseille

These dance sequences were performed at the Théâtre du Gymnase in Marseille. “We really fell in love with this theatre, which has a particularity that we really liked: its seats are blue, which is quite rare, specifies the producer. Just like its architecture, which also seduced us a lot. Not to mention the logistical facilities since the theater was closed for work at the time of filming. So there was no representation. We were able to shoot quite freely and without too many time constraints.”