Bérénice Bejo embodies the Alice Guy icon for HBO Max and France TV: First photo
The shooting of the Alice series, on the first fictional director in the history of cinema, has just started in Paris.
The development of the series on the legendary Alice Guy was long, but it will finally see the light of day. The shooting started with Bérénice Bejo in the role of the pioneer of the 7ᵉ Art, the first fictional director in the history of cinema with the cabbage fairy, in 1896. A few months after the sprinkler sprinkled with the Lumière brothers.
The project had been announced in 2020, with a man in realization, Jean-Jacques Annaud, a choice which had been criticized at the time. It was ultimately the duo Virginie Verrier (Marinette) and Guillaume Lonergan (the Empathy series) who was entrusted with the staging of this series created by Tim Loane and Claire Lemaréchal, and co-written by André Gulluni.
Bérénice Bejo gives the reply to Thibaut Evrard in Leon Gaumont, mentor and tutelary figure, Oscar lesage
In the role of Herbert Blaché, her husband and professional partner, Irene Jacob in the role of Marie, Alice’s mother, as well as Yannick Choirat in Charles Pathé, rival and antagonist. Marc Barbé, Steve Driesen, Sophie Nélisse, François Arnaud and Vincent Leclerc complete the casting.
Alice will be made up of six 45 -minute episodes and broadcast during 2026 on HBO Max and France Télévisions, who joined forces to “reveal to the general public the fascinating journey of a young woman with multiple lives: cinema pioneer, passionate woman, mother, daring entrepreneur between Paris and New York”, as the press release described. “This is an opportunity to pay tribute to a filmmaker who was as decisive for the 7ᵉ art that she was unjustly invisible for more than a century.”
Alice’s shoot will continue until the end of December between Paris, Belgium, Camargue and Canada.
