A comedian back in the spotlight. David Brécourt, former face of the soap opera Under the Sun, returns to television this Friday April 7 in an episode of Cassandre on France 3. At the heart of the detective series carried by Gwendoline Hamon, the actor makes an appearance in the role of Julien Valencon, an entrepreneur charged with murder.
The victim of this new case around Annecy? “Nelly, a participant in the Miss region contest, is found dead. Her mother is devastated, especially as she is raising Nelly’s sister, mentally handicapped, to whom she does not know how to announce this tragic death”, can- read in the summary. “Would a contestant have wanted to eliminate Nelly, the big favourite?”
Very quickly, suspicion turned to the character played by David Brécourt. Indeed, he was the sponsor of the victim, in the running for the beauty contest. “A straight man”, according to his interpreter, who “has a certain closeness with Claire Bertin (Anne Caillon), the mother of the victim”, he confides according to Télé 7 Jours. “Besides, he is the last to have seen her alive. So logically, he is suspected…”.
A character far from the roles in his debut that allowed David Brécourt to find glory. Viewers remember in particular the character of Baptiste Mondino in Sous le soleil, which he wore from 1997 to 2004 on TF1. A successful series in which he shared the poster with Tonya Kinzinger, Bénédicte Delmas, Adeline Blondieau or Grégory Fitoussi.
After the end of the soap opera, David Brécourt became rarer in fiction on television. “I experienced a crossing of the desert, which lasted almost ten years. I was bruised by it. I never understood why the directors did not ask me”, he declared to the magazine. “I didn’t feel like I was wrong.”
However, the famous comedian of Under the sun does not express any regret in relation to his career. “Anyway, I will never deny this series. I owe him a lot. It was a springboard,” said the 50-year-old to our colleagues. “We shot a lot and very quickly. That’s where I learned the trade”.
Absent from television screens, David Brécourt took the opportunity to turn to the boards of the theater. Among his successful plays are The Game of Truth (by Philippe Lellouche), Drinking, Smoking and Driving Fast (still by Philippe Lellouche) and En ce temps-là l’amour (by Gilles Segal) played at the Festival d’ Avignon. Before finding him soon in future fictions (Les secrets du Finistère, Meurtres à…), the actor gives his news on social networks. Anthology in pictures.
