The traveler returns to France 3 with Bruno Debrandt who almost made Eric Cantona forget. Yet it was not won…
France 3 has scheduled a new episode of its series The travelertitled “The Glass Dancer,” on Thursday, November 23. In this episode of the second season, renewed since last year with a new hero, Yann Kandinsky recharges his batteries in a forest located in the depths of Allier, wanting to take a step back, after having faced the worst criminals.
But his peace of mind is short-lived: the police officer is contacted by a man who calls him without revealing his identity. The latter establishes a link between three disappearances of women that occurred in the same geographical area, around Brest. The stranger continues to feed Kandinsky’s mailbox with press articles concerning these affairs. Kandinsky therefore takes the road to Brittany, when he discovers that the mother of one of the disappeared, Madeleine Guyot, is beginning her third week of hunger strike so that the police will be interested in what she considers to be a kidnapping and not a voluntary disappearance. The traveler will establish his headquarters at Madeleine’s house…
The traveler changed heroes and main actor in 2020, since after playing police officer Bareski in the first season, Eric Cantona gave way to Bruno Debrandt. The latter, however, did not take over the role of the main character, instead taking on the features of a new protagonist: Yann Kandinsky, an investigator determined to give new meaning to his career by closing unfinished business.
Bruno Debrandt didn’t want the role of Eric Cantona
If Bruno Debrandt now seems cut out for the role, he almost never took on the costume of the traveler after Eric Cantona. Flattered but not excited by the proposal to resume a series after “The King”, as he nicknames it, the actor initially declined the offer out of respect for his predecessor whom he greatly admires.
“I was very flattered, but I initially declined because I didn’t want to resume a series, and especially not after “The King”. For me, he was the traveler. He’s a sublime actor, a beast whom I respect a lot… But I still wanted to know what it was about,” the actor told Télé Loisirs. It was after watching the first season that he finally let himself be convinced by the “brilliant” concept of the series.
Bruno Debrandt still wanted to obtain Eric Cantona’s blessing before definitively accepting. The latter, who knew and appreciated the work of his successor, placed his trust in him while confronting him with his responsibilities, the concept of the series being inspired by the story of his own great-uncle.
Since this delicate handover, fans have saluted the impeccable performance of Bruno Debrandt. His fine interpretation of this new traveler, determined to close the backlog of files, should allow viewers to adopt this new investigator as easily as his dog and his van, inherited from the old Bareski.