Colette Brancillon, Dix Pour Cent/Call My Agent!

Colette Brancillon (Ophélia Kolb)
In comedy series Call My Agent! (Orginal French tittle Dix Pour Cent), Colette Brancillon was first seen as a woman in a lesbian dating app chatting with one of the lead characters, Andrea Martel.
Andrea rejected her because Colette was looking for a long term relationship, while she wanted a one night stand. Colette appeared the following episode as the tax agent sent to do the tax audit for talent agency ASK, Andrea’s workplace. Andrea started to flirt with Colette who thought it was only because she wanted a positive review for the agency.
Andrea succeeded to convince Colette that she was genuinely interested in her and the two of them started a relationship that ended in episode 1×06 when Colette saw her making out with another woman.
Season 2
In season 2, Andrea’s storyline involved her having a threesome with her new male boss, ending up pregnant, and then trying to decide whether or not to keep the baby. She had a few one night stands and later in the season, short meetings with Colette, though the focus in the latter was to discuss her pregnancy, and she and Colette never rekindled their relationship.
Colette showed up very briefly in 2×02, when Andrea accidentally ran into her at a bar, and was mentioned by other characters, but she did not appear again in the first 4 (out of 6) episodes.
She appeared again in episode 2×05, when Andrea went to see her and asked her out for a drink, to talk. When Colette refused, because she didn’t want to get hurt again, Andrea blurted out that she was pregnant. They met up at the end of the episode at a restaurant and Andrea told her she had a threesome, and that she wanted to get an abortion. They were interrupted by Hicham (the baby’s father), who showed up and demanded to be introduced to Colette.
In episode 2×06 Colette and Andrea were out for a walk after dinner and talked about the pregnancy, and Colette agreed to see Andrea again after she came back from the Cannes film festival. While at Cannes, they had another scene together, over Skype, but Andrea was freaking out because of Hicham, and after Colette told her she maybe shouldn’t have slept with him, Andrea slapped her laptop shut and ended the call.
Colette called her at the end of the episode to apologize, and told her that she wanted to go through the pregnancy with her, although in the meantime, Andrea had gotten a job offer in New York.
Appearances:
- 7 episodes. 1x03-1x06, 2x02, 2x05, 2x06
Female love interests:
- Andréa Martel (Camille Cottin, lesbian, regular)
Relationship story arc with a woman: Yes
Male love interests:
Relationship story arc with a man: No
Male love interest after being identified as a lesbian? No
Filter Relationship Arc:
Storyline during sweeps? No
[1] A relationship story arc is defined as explicit, developed on screen, and lasting more than 3 episodes. It is listed as questionable or subtext if romance is only implied, mentioned instead of shown on screen, part of a dream sequence, or otherwise not explicit for the viewer.
[2] Sweeps episodes air in February, May, July and November, the periods when advertising rates are set. A character is marked as "sweeps" when there is a very limited number of episodes that address their sexuality, all air during sweeps period, and the storyline is otherwise ignore/dropped.
More characters from Dix Pour Cent/Call My Agent!
Quotes
Andréa is a lesbian but she’s free enough to have a one-night-stand with a man and not have a problem with it, because she is confident in her sexuality and self-fulfilled enough to not ask herself questions. Right from the start, I knew that this character would have a very rich, complex and unfettered libido, and for me that goes beyond sleeping with women. I think Andréa is more modern than that.
— BuzzFeed (French), Creator Fanny Herrero, who identifies as straight.
Fanny Herrero
May 14, 2017
There are gay women who took it badly. I can understand it because it’s quite rare to have a lesbian main character on TV, so we shouldn’t make her sleep with a guy, I get it. The attitude towards sex is quite free in Dix pour cent, there’s a freedom of tone, I thought that freedom of tone was enough and that it would let us play with the codes. Maybe I was too thoughtless. At that point, we did not realize that it could be hurtful. Maybe we should have been more careful, but we write characters, we do not write for an agenda. From a writing point of view, we have a chessboard of characters that we bring to life and sometimes we exaggerate a little bit for dramatic effect. Maybe we will push the characters faster to places where, in real life, they wouldn’t go, where it would take more time to get.
— BuzzFeed (French), Creator Fanny Herrero - Lesbian sleeps with a man trope.
Fanny Herrero
May 14, 2017
I wanted to confront Andréa with this question, because she is more rough in her attitude towards motherhood. I wanted to paint a portrait of a woman who becomes a mother differently from what we usually see, I wanted her to be upset by this pregnancy.
— BuzzFeed (French), Creator Fanny Herrero.
Fanny Herrero
May 14, 2017
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1 Comment on "Colette Brancillon, Dix Pour Cent/Call My Agent!"
Calm down….. it’s fiction, so anything goes!