what becomes of the real Marie-Antoinette, played by Ness Merad in the series?
Undoubtedly one of the most striking series of this beginning of the year… Three weeks ago, TF1 launched the broadcast of Toulouse Lautrec high schoola fiction in six episodes remembered both by critics – it was rewarded at the La Rochelle Television Festival – and by the public, who did not fail to share his enthusiasm on social networks. Six episodes which tell the true story of Fanny Riedberger, producer, author and director, herself educated in the establishment (where is he ?) when she was a teenager. “There is something magical about this place. There is this first moment, where we find that everything is a little weird and, very quickly, we no longer see anything” she remembers with our colleagues from the Parisian.
Timeless friendship stories
It was there that, at the time, she met Marie-Antoinette, wonderfully interpreted in the TF1 fiction by Ness Merad (is she related to Kad Merad?). The young schoolgirl then accompanied her. For Télé-Loisirs, Fanny Riedberger told this story of friendship, and said more about the one that inspired the character in the series. “In real life, my Marie-Antoinette was “tracheotomized”, she remembers. “When the system fails, the life expectancy is three minutes to restart it, otherwise the person dies”. She also meets Jean-Philippe, also severely disabled, as she tells our colleagues from Parisian. “He couldn’t talk, couldn’t move” she recalls. “He moved his wheelchair forward using a lever that he operated with his chin. I clearly never exchanged a word with him. But I knew it by heart…“
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Fanny Riedberger is still in contact with the real Marie-Antoinette
Solid heart ties, which she was able to find thanks to the magic of social networks. Thus Fanny Riedberger she named Télé-Loisirs to always be in contact with Marie-Antoinette, whom she found thanks to the Facebook group of former high school students. She also learned that her former classmate had become a mother. In short, an establishment that changes lives, and that the producer, author and director wanted to highlight in order, also, to sound the alarm about its situation. “The question of financing no longer even arises to consider other establishments of the same kind, but so that Toulouse-Lautrec can continue!explains Fanny Riedberger to Télé-Loisirs. “It’s a public high school that struggles to get subsidies every year. It’s excessively expensive and it’s become very complicated for them. I wanted to write this series to change the way people look and move the lines, but also to put the light on this boarding school. I am extremely proud to have met these people in my life. One day, the expression “out of the ordinary” will be overused, I am sure of it.“Let’s hope that the success of this series will change things…
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