Chaotic Shoot for “Bad Cop, Bad Cop”

Crave is now streaming the full series of Bon Cop, Bad Cop, with Patrick Huard returning to his iconic role as David Bouchard in a new chapter of the police saga set between Montreal, Toronto, and the Indigenous reserve of Gegaspegiag in Gaspésie. Alongside the series, Crave is also offering a companion documentary, Bon Cop, Bad Cop : Histoire de familles, directed, produced, and composed by Anik Jean. The 60-minute film takes viewers behind the scenes of a turbulent production that pushed the team to its limits and left Huard exhausted by the end of the project.

The documentary revisits the many obstacles that nearly derailed the shoot. One of the biggest blows came just days before filming when Colm Feore, one of the project’s two leads, withdrew from the production. The sudden departure forced the team to recast the role under extreme pressure and threatened the entire plan for filming in Gaspésie, especially in Gegaspegiag. Huard describes that period as a nightmare, saying the uncertainty created a crisis for everyone involved.

But the recasting of Feore was only one of many setbacks. The production also had to deal with an actor suffering a stroke and being replaced at the last minute, repeated delays, additional costs, broken equipment, and other logistical problems that piled up as filming moved forward. According to the documentary, the project became an escalating test of endurance, with every obstacle adding more strain to the schedule, the budget, and the people working on it.

Huard speaks candidly in the film about reaching a breaking point before the project was complete. He says he was unable to finish the work on his own and credits Anik Jean with keeping the production alive. Jean, for her part, explains that the team was forced to make extraordinary sacrifices to finish the series. She says the scale of the project was immense, comparing it to making three films with less time than had been available for the second Bon Cop, Bad Cop. The setbacks led to lost rentals, major expenses, damaged equipment, emergency recasts, and hospitalizations, all while the team struggled to stay on track.

The documentary also shows the personal toll on the family. Jean says she watched Huard become depleted by fatigue, overwork, and the pressure of serving simultaneously as showrunner, writer, director, producer, and actor in nearly every scene. To help bring the project to completion, the couple reportedly put their own salaries back into the production. Their son Nathan, who also appears in the series, adds his own perspective on how the intense workload affected their home life.

Despite the chaos, the documentary presents the project as a story of resilience, family commitment, and artistic determination. It offers a closer look at the human effort behind the finished series and the sacrifices that made the return of Bon Cop, Bad Cop possible.