First got here Determined Housewives and now we’ve received Determined Lillewives.
Marcia Cross has reprised her iconic position as Bree Van de Kamp from the ABC comedy-drama in one other surreal Collection Mania promo video, two years after she appeared on the standard French co-production and TV content material pageant. The fest has made it one thing of a practice to launch a promo that includes main TV stars in foolish situations over latest years.
The brand new parody video begins a monitoring shot of a neighbourhood that appears similar to the Determined Housewives space, with a French voiceover saying, “since Bree Van de Kamp had moved to Wisteria Lille, she had secretly developed an dependancy to TV collection.” The character is then seen with a trademark wine in a single hand and a distant management within the different.
“When her husband was on the gymnasium, she loved watching Ted Lasso,” the V.O. continues because the digital camera pans as much as reveal Collection Mania founder Laurence Herszberg dressed as Bree. A surreal scene ensues as she meets a “single plumber with a slightly troubled previous” (performed by French-Israeli actor Tomer Sisley) at her entrance door and lies to her husband (Collection Mania’s Frederic Lavigne) about needing salt to wash a wine stain. “I don’t assume so. It’s insanity on the market with Collection Mania,” responds Lavigne in character as Orson.
Herszberg’s ‘Bree’ then telephones Cross’ unique, saying she is in a “very delicate state of affairs.” ‘Unique’ Bree responds, saying “One factor I’ve realized over the past eight years residing with these is that no holds barred, and pretending that you simply’re pregnant isn’t a good suggestion,” a callback to a traditional storyline from the ABC present, which ran between 2005 and 2012. “Good luck, Bree,” she provides earlier than ending the decision.
Later, because the credit roll on the brief, Cross is seen together with her Housewives trademark apron nonetheless on, downing her wine earlier than going again to baking.
Deadline checked in with Collection Mania, nevertheless it seems there will probably be no repeat of Cross this 12 months on the occasion, which contains a pageant and trade convention and runs from March 21-28 in Lille. We hear the expertise line-up will probably be unveiled at a press convention subsequent month.
In final 12 months’s promo video, Brian Cox unexpectedly appeared in character as Succession‘s Logan Roy in a Collection Mania promo that featured a pastiche of Emily in Paris. The promo is turning into one thing of an annual custom, that includes French, U.S. and worldwide stars in humorous situations primarily based on standard reveals.
