00:00I do believe in cinemas being able to hold, you know, some presences that you want to keep forever.
00:18My father had this disease that inspired the movie.
00:21I was very moved when I read the script.
00:24The fact that she's facing death with her father, disease, but also she's experiencing a new love with this man.
00:35And so the parallel between death and love I thought was extremely, extremely beautiful.
00:43The starting point for me was simultaneity of very opposite feelings.
00:47One being that strange kind of grief of somebody who's still there,
00:52but the other being joy, the joy of rediscovering your own body,
00:57the feeling of a rebirth through a new love, through sexuality.
01:03And that we're observing how both could combine and speak about life.
01:10That was the starting point, I guess, for me.
01:13Do you see me?
01:14Yes, of course, I see you.
01:16Can you tell me if I have long hair?
01:20It could be long.
01:21The connections that I made with the character, first, it's based on me as a personal experience.
01:28So it really touched me because I felt that I was in a way responsible of her story.
01:36Immediately, I felt, you know, I had a very strong empathy for the character.
01:42I've put some things of my personal life in the movie.
01:47And these are my secrets.
01:49I actually felt a great joy of making that film, which surprised me,
01:52because the film dealt with, well, some moments of happiness, of course,
01:57because Sandra's character is also rediscovering love,
02:00and that's the most happy thing you can think of.
02:03But at the same time, it deals with very painful experiences,
02:07like watching the decline of your own father and not being able to do anything about it.
02:13But just by filming Lea while she was being that character,
02:18that was, I thought it was incredibly healing.
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