The Little Murders of Agatha Christie: “We move away from novels but we keep the Cluedo spirit” – News Séries

Launched last January on France 2, season 3 of Small Murders by Agatha Christie, which features a new trio of investigators and this time plunges us into the 70s, returns this evening to the air with a new unpublished episode entitled “Le Vallon”.

For this third installment of season 3, which is inspired by the style of the queen of crime but is not directly adapted from one of her novels (contrary to what its title might suggest), direction a surgery clinic ultra chic aesthetic where the jet-set from all over the world is operated in the greatest secrecy.

Gréco and Beretta are in charge of investigating the murder of a young surgeon and the death of the big boss of the establishment, shot dead. What is Doctor Rivière’s luxurious clinic hiding? This is what the three heroes of the series will have to try to find out, especially since Rose’s mother, a faithful patient at the clinic and Doctor Rivière’s mistress, is on the list of suspects.

While another unpublished Little Murder by Agatha Christie will also be offered next Friday on France 2, we met the three main actors, Emilie Gavois-Kahn, Arthur Dupont, and Chloé Chaudoye, during a round table organized in as part of the Séries Mania Festival. They tell us more about this new version, their characters, their chemistry on the set, and their wishes for the future.

Did a handover happen with your predecessors Samuel Labarthe, Blandine Bellavoir, and Elodie Frenck, when joining the adventure for this third season?

Emilie Gavois-Kahn (Annie Gréco): No, we’ve never met them. In reality, it is Sophie Révil, the producer and artistic director of the series, who ensures this continuity. It’s her baby, she’s the one who has been carrying The Little Murders of Agatha Christie from the start. And all the people she brings back to the project are going in the same direction as she is. And then we must also say that the technical teams and the production teams have largely remained the same, so it was easy to fit into this continuity. Everyone welcomed us with open arms.

Chloe Chaudoye (Rose Bellecour): On the other hand, we still watched season 2. Sophie Révil wanted us to watch a few episodes to see the tone of the series, the rhythm of the comedy.

Arthur Dupont : Yes because, in the end, the writing mechanics are a bit the same since the first season. It is this particular rhythm and the singularity of human relationships, especially within this trio, that create interesting situations and interest for the viewer. It’s a real pleasure to play in this series.

In your opinion, do these new episodes, which are no longer strictly speaking adaptations of novels, rather manage to approach or move away from the work of Agatha Christie?

Emilie Gavois-Kahn: What is certain is that Sophie Révil succeeded in getting Agatha Christie’s great-grandson to be able to write new stories by being inspired by Agatha Christie, without being in the own adaptation. So, obviously, we are moving away from novels, but I find that we keep the Cluedo spirit. There is elegance, and at the same time there is mystery. There are murders, it can be scary, it can make you laugh. We really stay in that spirit.

Arthur Dupont: I’m not a great specialist in Agatha Christie, but what I find from what I knew from novels or adapted films is that I want all the characters to be guilty (laughs). All are suspect, but with greed. We take pleasure in seeing such and such a suspect and potentially guilty character. And everything is foiled in an absurd way every time.

How do you enjoy your respective characters?

Emilie Gavois-Kahn: The pleasure of playing characters who are well written, in the sense that they are complex, rich, subtle, precise. And that they complement each other, because it circulates between the three heroes, but also with the forensic scientist, who is played by Benoît Moret. It works really well between us. And even if there is a framework that is enjoyable, we manage to find real freedom and we really have fun.

Arthur Dupont: I really enjoy playing Beretta because it has a certain clumsy and nagging panache. He can go to the forehead with his head down, but he can be quite loose too. He…