00:00Well, I hope it's one that they think to take people they love.
00:02It's something I've thought about, that it's not women going by themselves to sit in a room.
00:06I hope people who love their daughters, their wives, their mothers, and their, you know,
00:10I think you go because it's a way of speaking to them and saying,
00:15I'm hearing you and I'm with you and let me understand more about you.
00:19I hope people take away from it that to live, you know, to live.
00:26We are all, we're all going to pass away one day, right?
00:31And so we struggle, we stress about so many different things, especially today.
00:36So many people are so overwhelmed, understandably, by so much.
00:40But this is the life we have and these are the days we have.
00:43And I'm guilty of it.
00:44I'm guilty of not finding joy in difficult times, you know, but we have to.
00:50And so I hope that it's, I hope it's life-affirming in some way.
00:55And I hope that it brings people to discussion.
00:59It follows many people, three women mainly, trying to navigate life.
01:05And I think there's, there's a real focus on the body, on the self.
01:12Couture means stitches also.
01:14And so I think when you think of the stitches, whether it be a, a gown or something we put
01:19on to present ourselves or the stitches we have in surgery, as we're trying to recover.
01:24In this film, it means both, it represents both.
01:28So I think the film is about the scars, the stitches, the, the sense of self and, and how
01:36we, how we pull through.
01:38But it is personal for Alice, she's, she's very graciously shared with, with the world,
01:45her, her story of cancer and her experience through this film.
01:49And she's a woman and a director.
01:52And so I'm in some way playing an aspect of her, very personal to her.
02:00And she's a really talented filmmaker, but she's also a very generous human being.
02:06Maxine is a character who, when we first meet her, she's, she's an American director coming
02:10to Paris to do a direct-to-couture show.
02:13And you can, you get a sense that she's doing this for money, for life, for work, and, and
02:18just trying to focus on that.
02:20And then she discovers she has cancer.
02:23And so a lot of the story is how, how we accept that news, how we talk to our family,
02:31how we adjust the priorities in our life.
02:35And, and I think it's also about the choice to live fully, you know, to, to embrace life.
02:43I don't think she does it well.
02:45And I think that's what's true about it, right?
02:48When she first finds out, she's asking not to have this interrupt her work.
02:53You know, she's not wanting to accept this is real.
02:57She's not wanting to, or not knowing how to talk to her daughter.
03:01She's, so, she doesn't naturally balance it well at all.
03:06And I think we're watching quite a few of the characters, a few of the women all trying
03:11to find their way and navigate their way.
03:14And what I love the most is in the end, it's not about that they all figure it out magically.
03:20It's that they kind of, in this metaphor that is the storm and the real storm in the film
03:25that kind of ruins the show.
03:28It's, it's that they're, they're free.
03:31They're in the rain.
03:32It is life.
03:35And there it is, you know, there's no, it doesn't suddenly change.
03:39It's just how you decide you're going to, you're going to live.
03:44Last night we had a beautiful discussion about life and health and illness
03:50and, and using art to communicate with each other and feel each other.
03:57And I think it was, it was a beautiful reminder of that aspect of art.
04:04Sometimes we all want just entertainment, escapism, which I love too, and all of that.
04:09But sometimes it's, it's very nurturing where it makes you feel better and it helps you to,
04:15it helps you through tough times.
04:16And I think it was a, it was a reminder of why, why these kinds of things or poetry
04:23or certain types of art are, are nourishing.
04:28And I hope to, to do more of them as well as the fun ones.
04:32It's very personal for me.
04:34I wore my mother's ashes in a necklace.
04:36It's actually the film itself is going to help me talk to my daughters about it.
04:40I've spoken to them, of course, a bit about it.
04:42But, but even telling them that it's coming out and they were talking to me about what it's about.
04:47And I was, it got us into the conversation about the gene and maybe if they have it
04:52and how medicine's changing or how we live life or all the many things that could happen
04:57and not to be afraid.
05:00And all of us go through something in life.
05:02All of us are being challenged in one way or another.
05:05And all of us have choices to make of how we approach that.
05:09And, and how we have to learn to lean on each other.
05:14And, and know that we're not the only ones going through something.
05:17So extraordinary.
05:19I felt so like, I felt very shy at first because doing, doing scenes with extraordinary French actors in French
05:27was terrifying.
05:30Um, but they were very nice to me.
05:33Uh, Anya is a brilliant and amazing, uh, talent, a real discovery.
05:39Um, and, uh, we talked a lot about her life and it's very true to her life as a Sudanese
05:45woman
05:45and also a model and an actress, but her, her struggles, her life, her private life.
05:52Um, I just, I just felt very, very lucky.
05:55I felt like I was surrounded by extraordinarily gifted people who were equally kind
06:00and I felt that under other circumstances, this would have been very difficult,
06:05but I felt so at ease to, to share something so personal and to be so vulnerable.
06:16Smile, smile, smile.
06:18Yeah, that's good.
06:20Great.
06:23Great.
06:24Great.
06:26Great.
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