is the new TF1 series inspired by a true story?
“Lycée Toulouse-Lautrec” tells the story of a high school like no other. A high school that welcomes students with disabilities, such as Marie-Antoinette, a bubbly quadriplegic, or Charlie, suffering from a brain tumor. But also able-bodied students, like Victoire, a young teenager forced to join this extraordinary place to follow her brother and who, although initially refractory, gradually overcomes her prejudices. She will discover there the friendship, the love, the solidarity but also the humor, the courage and the strength of all her comrades, as well as the devotion and the altruism of the parents and the teaching staff…”
Monday January 9 TF1 launches Lycée Toulouse-Lautrec, a series carried by a nice cast in which we find in particular Stéphane de Groodt, Valerie Karsenti, Aure Atika, Rayane Bensetti or even Bruno Salomone. Filmed in the real Toulouse-Lautrec high school in Vaucresson (92) which welcomes students with disabilities but also young able-bodied people, the series is inspired by real events, since the creator Fanny Riedberger was herself a pupil of the Lycée Toulouse – Lautrec. The casting of young actors is also made up of teenagers educated in this establishment like no other. Among them, we discover Ness Merad, whose leading role, who portrays the character of Marie-Antoinette, a student in a wheelchair.
Fanny Riedberger was therefore largely inspired by her own personal experience to write the series “I had this desire, perhaps utopian, to change the way people look at disability. Everything we didn’t know is scary. (…) It’s important that the series be faithful to what I experienced” she explained to RTBF, during the last La Rochelle Fiction Festival, where the series won the Prize for Best 52′ series.
Thierry-Claude