2024-03-13 20:28:08
Marie-Lyne Joncas has landed the most important role of her career on TV. In everyday life STATthe comedian, host and actress plays a woman suffering from pica, an eating disorder that pushes her to ingest metal objects.
The advertising executive Olivia Marcoux, her character, has not gone unnoticed since she arrived at the emergency room of Saint-Vincent Hospital for a simple concussion.
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Since then, her condition has worsened considerably, not in the head, but in the stomach, intestines and other important organs. In particular, she ate a piece of metal taken from the heater in her room as well as a toilet chain. Would she also have swallowed the watch that her colleague paid $20,000 for?
People with pica can ingest paper, dirt, hair, in short, lots of things that we don’t normally eat in life. Olivia, it is the metal which seems to fill a void in her and soothe a source of distress still unknown at this stage.
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Olivia had surgery in Wednesday’s episode and the team of emergency manager Emmanuelle St-Cyr (Suzanne Clément) will now have to confront her about the illness that is gnawing at her. Psychiatrist Philippe Dupéré (Patrick Labbé) will try to help Olivia who, as we have seen, has been seriously injured in the last few hours. You had to see all the blood in her bed to understand that the metal items she swallowed caused a lot of damage, as if it were a mutilation from the inside.
“I can’t say absolutely anything. [sur la suite des choses], except that it is like alcoholism, anorexia or bulimia; you hide something in yourself that you don’t admit,” stressed Marie-Lyne Joncas, before adding that her character’s “desire” “was not to hurt yourself to that extent.”
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Marie-Lyne Joncas studied theater, communications and humor. She also graduated from the National School of Humor 10 years ago this year. Since then, we have known her mainly on stage – she made us laugh with Ève Côté in their duet Les grands crues – and as a host or columnist, both on TV and on the radio.
But she has just got the bug for acting again on the set of STATa role which was offered to him by the Aetios production company directed by Fabienne Larouche and Michel Trudeau.
Play more and embrace the drama
“Of course I want to play more, and to play dramatic roles. “It’s a character that has many layers of acting and I wanted to show that I am capable of acting,” she said.
“I told my agent I wanted to audition more often. I hope this opportunity will make people think of me more often.”
Usually, she portrays characters in comedies like Counter offer or The Blue House. This time, she treats herself with something heavy. “These are more emotionally charged things, more difficult scenes to deliver.”
This month of filming came at the right time, in January and February, when she had some time available before starting her marathon of recordings for the show. The big RONA projectwhich will be broadcast this spring at Noovo.
Find Geneviève Schmidt and Stéphane Rousseau
On the set of STAT, Marie-Lyne Joncas found her great accomplice Geneviève Schmidt, the talented actress who plays surgeon Isabelle Granger. They had done together The Blue House and collaborations on his show Marie-Lyne’s Fabulous Spring. “We have some great scenes coming up, Geneviève and I. We were really excited to see that we had several scenes together.”
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Marie-Lyne, who writes a series called Raw with Ève Côté, is also friends with Stéphane Rousseau, who plays the attendant Éric Perron in the series.
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