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I was in the States when things started to get really serious.
I was in Los Angeles for my new feature that Im still writing.
I started to do a few meetings there to think about the next steps of production.
But it was still okay, so I left.
How are you going to come back?
I really didnt want to be in the middle of this potential nightmare not at home.
I took a plane ticket for the day after [the announcement].
It was almost empty.
There were only 15 or 20 people on the plane.
You cant go out of homes.
Everything was so quick and crazy.
We chat a lot, and she said, hey, Coralie, be careful.
In Italy, its a nightmare.
The country is on its knees.
You are sitting at home.
For our industry, we dont really know what the consequences are going to be.
Its going to harm a lot of movies, for sure.
You see, on social media, everybody is like, Im going to watch this movie!
Im going to do this and that!
And that is like, oh my God, I can do nothing.
I have a list of films and series I wanted to see for a long time.
I was like,Great.
Thats something that is very strange.
My mind has never been less open to discovery than now.
The only thing I was able to watch and really enjoy wasJumanji.
It was a very fresh, happy bubble.
Entertaining and very funny and moving.
I really liked both of them.
It is a little bit easier for me to watch series, so I also watched HBOsSuccession.
That was so cool.
you could really let yourself go into that, being yelled at in helicopters.
Now, in Paris and other regions, its very good weather.
So its very tough to stay inside.
you’ve got the option to feel that people go out a little bit more.
It has been very strange, because definitely weve got very contradictory information.
Who do I believe?
What was very disturbing from the beginning is that the virus really brings into light the oldest social inequalities.
So, people who didnt succeed are nothing?
People who go to collect the garbage, the cashiers at the supermarkets, the people in the hospitals.
And they have to go to work without any protection.
There are so many different types of reactions [to our new reality].
Its a great way to live this together.
Ive seen great solidarity.
People do shopping for elderly who cant leave home, and people are happy for [ecological advancements].
