Izïa Higelin at the heart of a new French medical series for Netflix
In Motherhood, she will play a “devoted midwife who spends her days delivering other people’s babies.”
Netflix continues to focus on French fiction and is currently preparing a new medical series called Maternity, led by Izïa Higelin.
Filming has just started in Paris and Île-de-France for this drama which will delve into the heart of the tense daily life of a public hospital in crisis.
Izïa Higelin, who played last year in The Amazon Gang for Prime Video and who has already filmed for Netflix in Far from the Periphery, will play her first major role in a TV series. She will play Maya, a midwife totally devoted to her profession, who helps others give birth every day… while desperately dreaming of having a child herself.
“The very day of her embryo transfer (IVF), her partner leaves her… while remaining by her side at work, since he is a doctor in the same maternity ward. Forced to carry out high-pressure deliveries with him in an understaffed public hospital on the verge of collapse, Maya must face an impossible choice: carry out this IVF alone, or give up her dream of becoming a mother” specifies the official synopsis.
Around Izïa Higelin, the cast will also bring together Pablo Pauly, Mouloud Ayad, Manon Kneusé, Louise Labèque, Gaspard Meier, Clémentine Justine, Florence Loiret Caille, Nicolas Briançon and Assaâd Bouab.
The series is created by Marjorie Bosch, already in the medical series Nina on France 2, and Sarah Farkas, co-creator of Tom and Lola and Vortex.
Maternity will be directed by Slimane-Baptiste Berhoun and Keren Ben Rafael, for a production signed Oberkampf Productions (Mediawan).
No release date has yet been announced by Netflix.
