Stéphane Bern began a new career as a cop or vigilante on television thanks in particular to Murders in Lorraine, in 2019.
Murders in Lorrainereleased in 2019, is one of the opuses of the “Murders in…” collection, which sets police intrigues in the most beautiful places of our heritage. Franco-Belgian production is so successful that we see it return at regular intervals on France 3, as in this episode, filmed in the landscapes surrounding the Bitche citadel. This is where a corpse was found (for the sake of fiction, don’t worry), carrying a crystal chess piece. Lieutenant Nicolas Muller was immediately dispatched to the site, accompanied by a trainee.
Throughout this complex investigation, the valiant lieutenant, played by Stéphane Bern, discovers that the young woman is not that foreign to him. But if Nicolas Muller investigates in his native region of Lorraine, in familiar territory, his investigations are made difficult by the fact that all the clues lead to a crystal factory run by his father and his own sister. A family heritage from which he preferred to move away by choosing to become a police officer. Around the crystal factory, the list of victims quickly grew, along with the list of suspects, including Muller’s father and sister…
Murders in Lorraine is not Stéphane Bern’s first experience in fiction, far from the historical programs or the news of the royal and princely families with which he is accustomed. Producer of the series Samantha Oops! (2007), he had already played notably in Our Dear Neighbors in 2014 or Merci pour tout, Charles in 2015. But by playing a key role in Murders in Lorraineas many guests have done since the launch of “Murders in…”, the host has this time discovered a true vocation as a vigilante. A daring reconversion which did not happen without some shaky sequences and without avoiding mockery.
Stéphane Bern: “As soon as I have a gun in my hands…”
In 2020, when viewers once again discovered the face of Stéphane Bern on the poster for the detective TV film, For the honor of a sonalso on France 3, the surprise was indeed great. The host once again played a compositional role, that of an Air Force commander bereaved by the loss of his child. But this time Mr. Heritage traded his microphone for a gun. Which did not fail to inspire the most facetious Internet users. The sequence where we see him brandishing a pistol with a threatening eye quickly went viral, making Stéphane Bern a meme on the web. It’s not Clint Eastwood who wants…
But the host-actor, far from letting himself be destabilized, took these jokes philosophically. “As soon as I have a gun in my hands, everyone gets excited about it on social networks! It makes me smile. And it creates buzz around the TV film, which is very good,” he confided to Parisian not long ago. Guest in mid-September on C à vous on France 5, he returned to this episode: “I was made fun of enough. Do you remember with the meme? It was viral on social networks. It was very funny!”
From, Murders in Lorraine And For the honor of a sonStéphane Bern became ruthless with viewers. In no way cooled by these first experiences, he decided to go for it and take on roles. After the military uniform, it is the magistrate’s dress that he donned to play the prosecutor Antoine Bellefond in the eponymous France 3 series from 2022. A major challenge for the one who readily admits: “I never ‘could have been a lawyer, I didn’t study law.’ Sexcept that Bellefond seems to have won over the public, bringing together more than 4 million followers for its first two episodes. A third opus was therefore launched on September 24, 2024 in prime time, with another 3.3 million viewers, stronger that evening than Koh Lanta on TF1 ! You’ll have to get used to it…