Mélanie Laurent is filming a new series for Netflix
A drama in 7 episodes inspired by true events, with Marina Hands and Marie Colomb.
After Thieves, actress and director Mélanie Laurent is once again behind the camera for another Netflix production, reports Le Film Français.
Nine feature films and two shorts later, the filmmaker is now tackling the series with La grande. A 7-episode drama inspired by true events.
We remember Les Adoptés, Respire, Le Bal des Folées and Voleuses, the filmmaker continues her gallery of female portraits with this new project. This time, she depicts a sisterly relationship against a backdrop of maternal toxicity with Marina Hands and Marie Colomb.
If the two actresses have never crossed paths on a set before, in 2026, they have multiple projects. We will find Hands – who delivered an extremely funny sketch on the stage of the Olympia to award the César for best costume – in the film De la Comédie française; while Marie Colomb is starring in Tout va super, in the cast of Les Miserables and the series Eldorado alongside Jérémie Renier and Karim Leklou.
Synopsis: “Seven years after fleeing, Tara returns to the places of her childhood to save her little sister, Callista, from the clutches of Karen, their toxic and perverse mother. At the risk of sinking herself, she launches into a fight to make her lose custody of her sister. A poignant epic about the restorative power of love, freely inspired by real events.”
Filming for La grande began on June 1. No release date yet.
