Describe your character, Malotru.

Malotru is a guy with an ethic, and sometimes your personal ethic goes against your professional orders. And what you have to do for your country is not exactly what you need to do for yourself. So you get your hand stuck in that machine: If you lie once, then you have to lie all the time.

Season 2 has already aired in France. What can we look forward to?

What I like is that they are still pushing the same direction but making it way more international. And my character becomes just one of the characters. His errors and mistakes drive the others to react. And the ending drove people crazy here.

Is there enough to keep it exciting in Season 3?

As long as we have wars, as long as we have geopolitical problems and people are spying on the others, this show has legs. But whatever amazing story we can come up with, reality is going to kick us back.

Did the terrorist attacks of the last two years have any impact on the series?

Charlie Hebdo and the Bataclan took place while we were shooting, and both times we had to come in one morning, look at each other and start to do scenes that were close to the actual situation. That’s why people like the show — because they’re seeing something that is really close to what they watch in the news, but it’s a little more honest.

You spent a decade in Los Angeles before returning to Paris two years ago. And in a 2013 interview in The Guardian, you renounced French cinema. Has your attitude changed with this project?

No, because you wish that this show wouldn’t be the exception, that it would be part of a movement. It’s a blessing to be part of something this good. But you’re sad that others are not good enough in that same way so that you can have people to talk with, to have fun with.