“We were a real band on the set and I think that shows in the film”, confides to 20 minutes Manu Payet (who insists on saying “glitter”). Melissa Drigeard has assembled a great cast to hawaiiIchoral comedy where friends have to manage the truths they told each other when they thought they would die following a tsunami.
Elodie Bouchez, Bérénice Bejo, Eye Haïdara, Pierre Deladonchamps, William Lebghil and Nicolas Duvachelle joined Manu Payet on Reunion Island where the filming took place. “It was fun to play a role and for my island of birth to play one too, jokes Manu Payet. Reunion embodies Hawaii very convincingly in the film and I hope to be just as convincing in my character. »
A deep empathy
The actor moves when he conveys the painful feelings felt by a man who discovers the lies of his loved ones. “It was a nice change for me not to have to be funny,” he says. By revealing a more serious aspect of his personality, Manu Payet brings to the screen the facets of a melancholy already perceptible in his excellent show Immanuel 2 which he currently plays throughout France. “I feel a deep empathy for my character and I would like the viewers to feel it too. It’s a beautiful thing, melancholy, he says. Especially by the sea where it contrasts with the sunny landscapes. ” Melancholic, perhaps Manu Payet, but it does not prevent that we often laugh in the face of the exchanges of these heroes whose complicity is put to the test.