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Constance attended the 29th L’Alpe d’Huez International Comedy Film Festival – Vous allez me faire pleurer Photocall and Screening yesterday! Click on the gallery link below to see all photos.
Candids, Events & Premieres > 2020s > 2026 > 2026-01-23 – 29th L’Alpe d’Huez International Comedy Film Festival – Vous allez me faire pleurer Photocall and Screening
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Constance posted this photo on her Instagram 2 days ago:
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I made screencaps of Constance in “Adieu Jean-Pat”. Click on the gallery link below to see all caps from each episode.
Films & Television > 2020s > 2025 – Adieu Jean-Pat > Screencaps
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Constance attended the Procirep French Television Producer Award in Paris a few days ago! Click on the gallery links below to see all photos.
Candids, Events & Premieres > 2020s > 2025 > 2025-12-15 – Procirep French Television Producer Award in Paris
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I found some new/old photos of Constance in the 2017 (short?) film Cycle. Click on the gallery link below to see all new photos.
Films & Television > 2010s > 2017 – Cycle > Behind the Scenes, Promotional Photos and Stills
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Désenchantées (France 2) – Constance Labbé: “Watching the series can help parents”
INTERVIEW. Constance Labbé plays Angélique, a woman whose best friend disappeared twenty years earlier. She is drawn back into her past when her sister (played by Marie Denarnaud), a journalist, writes about the case.
In your first scene, you break up a fight in a bar-restaurant. That sets the tone!
Constance Labbé: Exactly! (Laughs) When David Hourrègue, the director, first described Angélique to me, he used the word “powerful”. I think it was very important for him to show right away that she’s a woman who doesn’t take any nonsense anymore.
As a teenager, Angélique had an inner anger that sometimes made her want to destroy everything. Did you feel the same fierceness when you were younger?
I wasn’t like her because I played a lot of sports, which helped me let off steam. I also grew up with three older brothers, which helps channel my energy a bit! (Laughs) But I think all teenagers are, at some point, a little rebellious because they’re trying to find their place and have trouble finding it. We sometimes forget what adolescence is like, the intensity of the feelings involved, the difficulty of relating to others and to one’s own body. Watching Désenchantées can help parents.
What would you like to relive from that time?
The absence of cell phones and social media. It was great to really connect with people, to invent games, to call friends by throwing pebbles at the window, to call a landline and say, “Hello sir, could I speak to Victoire, please?” (Laughs)
Are you still in touch with your childhood friends?
I have my group of “désenchantées” friends, including Sophie and Victoire, whom I met in first grade, and who are like sisters to me. We call ourselves the Triplets! The hardest part of our friendship has been seeing each other in our adult lives. When others grow up, move, get married, become mothers, have demanding jobs, or no longer react the same way, it can be disorienting.
Angélique instilled in her son, Eder (played by Simon Rodzynek, winner of the Adami Young Male Hope Award at the 2025 La Rochelle Fiction Festival), that “lying is for cowards”. Is that also your motto?
I don’t lie. It actually annoys me when I hear people say that as an actress, I must be a very good liar… But, for me, acting is completely different. Lying involves emotional and affective manipulation. And that’s something I’m completely incapable of.
It seems you ask your loved ones for their opinion before accepting a project…
Sometimes I talk to my brother Guillaume, because he’s in the same profession and he understands. But less and less, because I’m learning to trust myself more. There are no rules for forging your own path, and it’s not another actor, a mother, or a father who can know which direction to take today.
You have over ten years of experience in the industry. What can we wish you for the next ten years?
Simply to keep working, because this profession is fragile, but also to continue collaborating with different people. I think it’s fantastic to be in a very mainstream entertainment show like Cat’s Eyes, for which I just finished filming the second season, and in a more intimate series like Désenchantées.
Original French article at programme-television.org
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Constance Labbé: “Adults tend to downplay what teenagers are feeling”
Constance Labbé stars in the highly successful series “Désenchantées”, currently airing on France 2. We met her at the La Rochelle Fiction Festival, where the series was in competition.
Paris Match: How did you get involved in the series?
Constance Labbé: I was incredibly lucky to receive an offer from director David Hourrègue, with whom I had never worked before. I knew him because he had recently worked with my brother, Guillaume Labbé, on the series “Anaon”. He was familiar with my work, and I was familiar with his. He wrote me an absolutely beautiful letter, telling me he would love to collaborate with me on this role. It was incredibly touching. I’m always surprised when people tell me, “I love your work”, or “I want to work with you”. I hope to be surprised all my life, actually.
Have you read the novel “Désenchantées” by Marie Vareille, which inspired the series?
I wasn’t familiar with the book; I read it afterward and I loved it. I read the adaptation, which was still a work in progress. I really enjoyed that too. I was worried about certain things, which David executed wonderfully. I was very scared; it’s hard to direct teenagers. In fact, I think that’s almost the best part. This dual timeline (between adults and their teenage selves, Ed.)—the way the director explained to me how he wanted to approach it—really appealed to me. He told me I had to trust him, that he wasn’t necessarily looking for people who were similar to him, that he had faith in the power of fiction, the power of editing.
What did you bring of yourself to this character?
I was able to suggest certain things, even during the writing process, about the character, about her journey, which was great. It was really wonderful to be listened to like that. I really worked on it with David, right from the writing stage. In the book, my character, Angélique, is a bit more absent; she’s more central to the series.
What remains with you from this series? Are there things that still resonate today?
Often with my roles, it’s feelings that stay with me, more than character traits or images. Now, talking about it in interviews, things come back, feelings, incredibly strong emotions. Angélique is someone very strong, who has taken a huge blow, who has built up an enormous shell around herself, but who is always walking a tightrope. I also wanted people to feel that it’s not far off. In her gaze, in her eyes, there’s this cracking feeling. He mustn’t be too far away. And I feel that’s where it is.
Did it make you relive your adolescence, for example?
No, not really. I didn’t have the same adolescence at all. Besides, I don’t have a sister, I only have brothers. I was lucky enough to have done the series “Cat’s Eyes” not long ago, where I have two sisters. So, I had already really worked on that relationship.
Do you have any memories of adolescence that came back to you?
That intensity of what you feel when you’re a teenager… Everything is absolute. All the sensations, all the feelings are pushed to the extreme. I remember the letters we wrote to each other when we argued… How dramatic it was. Life stops… And love stories! When the guy you’re in love with doesn’t want to see you. I remember being in love, for example, with the same boy as my friend. But it was so dramatic if she went out with him and I didn’t, or vice versa. I think we adults tend to really downplay what teenagers feel. We’ve forgotten the intensity of those feelings.
How far would you be willing to go for friendship?
Friendship is love. It comes from exactly the same place. Honestly, for the few people who are truly closest to me, I’d be willing to do anything, even swim across the ocean.
There’s a throwback to the 1990s in the series, which is your generation… The Walkman, the Nintendo, the absence of cell phones and social media… We didn’t use WhatsApp to visit each other’s houses… It’s really a Proustian madeleine. There’s definitely a hugely positive side and a hugely negative one. On the one hand, I thought, “Damn, it was so much better without cell phones.” I created games. We went out, we invented all sorts of things because we weren’t on our phones. We made real dates. And at the same time, it was a time when women weren’t really defended, teenagers weren’t listened to, weren’t believed, and freedom of speech wasn’t at all encouraged. There are good things to keep, and there are bad things.
Original French article at parismatch.com
