"HPI (High Intellectual Potential)": a gifted and funny policewoman

"HPI (Haut Potentiel Intellectuel)", a new series from France, features Audrey Fleurot as an offbeat and frankly hilarious police officer.

"HPI (High Intellectual Potential)": a gifted and funny policewoman

"HPI (Haut Potentiel Intellectuel)", a new series from France, features Audrey Fleurot as an offbeat and frankly hilarious police officer... in addition to being superiorly intelligent.

Night cleaning lady, Morgane Alvaro (Audrey Fleurot) is a single mother of three children. While working in the offices of the police station in Lille (a city in northern France), she takes a look at the case of the murder of a man. And leave a note for the investigators.

Because, with her IQ of 160, Morgane is gifted, super intelligent. In medical parlance, she has “high intellectual potential”. Concretely, this translates into attention to the smallest details, an uncommon alertness and an impressive ability to deduce. Obviously, the note she leaves pushes Commissioner Céline Hazan (Marie Denarnaud) to summon her to offer her a job, that of accompanying Inspector Karadec (Mehdi Nebbou) and becoming a consultant. But now, Morgane does not like authority. His relationship with Karadec will therefore prove to be, to say the least, complex... and funny.

Evolutionary process

“The project came to me very early on,” explained Audrey Fleurot during an interview with the QMI Agency. The first version was very unfinished. [...] It was a detective series – a cleaning lady with an IQ of 160 – but not a comedy. It didn't interest me more than that because I had the impression that it was a bit old-fashioned police episodes, in any case, not a series that I want to watch.

But the actress cannot easily get rid of the character discovered during her reading. “I said to myself that it might interest me if we made a comedy of it and I resumed an appointment with the producers”, she recalled.

Very well known for her incarnation of the Lady of the Lake in the cult series “Kaamelott”, the actress then offered the creators to “bring “HPI” closer to my humor. The idea also of talking about the "invisibles": a woman who goes from odd jobs to odd jobs, a single mother... I thought it was a whole section of society that was not really represented on television .”

“I was very attached to his anti-police side, to his complicated relationship with authority. I wanted to exacerbate all these ingredients, but in a comedy. I had the impression that this is what could make the difference with other series of the same type. It's really a matter of luck and I was able to bring the character back to me, in the writing, to what I wanted at that moment.

A comic series led by a woman is an exception, born of Audrey Fleurot's desire to offer viewers another look. "I really wanted to reverse the relationship traditionally given to the male character and the female character."

“I received a lot of scenarios for romantic comedies featuring an “adultescent” man and a psychorigid woman. It doesn't interest me, I don't recognize myself in it and I feel like I've seen it a thousand times."

No doubt, with her character of Morgane in "HPI (High Intellectual Potential)", Audrey Fleurot broke the mold... and we are delighted.

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