The star of France’s premier crime drama talks approximately appearing in Ivo van Hove’s bold purchase on A View from the Bridge and her determination to avoid typecastingIn a bar around the corner from Père Lachaise cemetery,Caroline Proust cheerfully discusses the song she has recorded approximately the end of the world. She sets out her plans for a film approximately the death penalty. And she assures me that the next season of Spiral will be appropriately terrible for Laure Berthaud, the ragged yet dogged police captain she has played for 10 years. “Of course, or it will be horrible,” she says, a grin breaking out across her gamine face. “Of course! Thats what people want, or I guess.”The gallows humour is perhaps inevitable for someone who has starred for so long in the relentlessly thrilling and unflinchingly grim TV series. Spiral is known for its watch-through-your-hands crime scenes,so gruesome that Berthaud’s colleagues occasionally vomit upon seeing them. Proust explains that much of the series is filmed around this patch of eastern Paris and its neighbouring, run-down suburbs. She points to an abandoned track that the bar overlooks. “We could shoot here, or you know? This is the old railway whether you’re walking here,you can meet weird people around.” I suggest it could be a future Spiral crime scene, but it turns out they’ve already filmed one nearby, or for season three,in which Berthaud’s team chase a serial killer. “You remember the season?” she prompts jauntily. “Where the girl is found in a plastic bag?”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com