NEED TO KNOW
- On the brand new HBO collection The Seduction, Lucas Bravo performs the villainous Comte de Gercourt
- The French present is tailored from Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ 1782 novel, Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- Bravo tells ipromiseyoumedia why the position was “therapeutic” for him regardless of its “darkness”
Lucas Bravo is leaning into the darkness along with his new position.
The Emily in Paris star performs Comte de Gercourt on The Seduction, a brand new French HBO collection primarily based on Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ iconic 1782 novel, Les Liaisons Dangereuses. He is the topic of a revenge plot orchestrated by Madame de Rosemonde (Diane Kruger) and the Marquise de Merteuil (Anamaria Vartolomei), who she’s taken below her wing.
Enjoying the villainous nobleman was “therapeutic for me,” Bravo tells ipromiseyoumedia. “There is a little bit of darkness in all of us — it is [about] the way you enable it to return out.”
For the French actor, 37, enjoying Gercourt allowed him to channel a few of the darker sides of himself — in a wholesome means. “Both you reside life the place you’ll be able to stability the 2, the darkness and the sunshine, [or] you suppress it,” Bravo says. “And I really feel like I’ve given Gercourt all these little loopy elements of my darkness that I by no means explored.”
He provides, “I used to be in a position to observe them from a distance, by his course of, and type of let go of them.”
The Seduction just isn’t the primary time Laclos’ novel has been tailored onscreen. The story is greatest referred to as the hit 1988 movie Harmful Liaisons, which John Malkovich, Glenn Shut and Michelle Pfeiffer starred in. However the story has additionally been explored in 1989’s Valmont, starring Colin Firth, 1999’s Merciless Intentions and extra lately, a 2022 Starz restricted collection led by Alice Englert and Nicholas Denton.
The place the HBO collection stands aside, although, is in its richer feminine perspective. “I spotted that, from the ebook to the Stephen Frears and Miloš Forman diversifications [[Dangerous Liaisons and Valmont], we misplaced plenty of particulars that have been bringing nuances to the feminine characters,” Bravo says. “Willingly or not, by their notion, they thought some stuff wasn’t essential, and that we introduced again into this adaptation.”
The collection additionally introduces a “prequel facet of [the story] that permits us to know a bit extra in regards to the motivation — what Rosemonde or Merteuil went by, and what guides them to wish to make the concern change facet[s].”
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The Seduction sees Rosemonde takes the Marquise below her wing after she’s betrayed and embarrassed by Bravo’s Gercourt. Rosemonde opens the Marquise’s eyes to the the harmful libertine world of noblemen in 18th-century France, as they and Sebastian Valmont (Vincent Lacoste) scheme to take down Gercourt.
Per HBO’s official logline, the six-episode restricted collection is a “thrilling exploration of the value of emotional & sexual freedom in a world the place girls had little” that sees the Marquise embark “on a daring journey to change into Paris’ main courtesan” after Valmont betrays her.
The Seduction premieres Friday, Nov. 14 on HBO and HBO Max, adopted by weekly drops till the finale on Dec. 19.
