Original link http://www.critikat.com/actualite-cine/entretien/david-cronenberg.html What is your opinion on the relationship between family and Hollywood? Hollywood can be regarded as a family, peculiar and difficult to get along with, but it is a group in which everyone knows each other. Everyone in Hollywood understands its rules of the game and maintains them with each other. This is the macroscopic situation of a normal family, or a normally dysfunctional family. Of course this is a difficult family, especially for children. We can perceive this by seeing what Benji suffered in the movie. He succumbed to the endless pressure of success, succumbed to ambition, despair, the temptation to win, and the emotion that can be felt everywhere but is always overexposed in Hollywood. I know well the self-regulation styles of successful or unsuccessful people. Generally speaking, we don't always think about those adjustment methods, but in the film industry, we really can't escape these things. Everyone is under tremendous pressure. In addition, you used an amazing plot. Regarding the premature adults and adult children, in fact, adults only have the appearance of adults, but they have not grown up. For example, Julianne Moore said in an interview that she considered her role as a child, a child who had never grown up. In addition, I don’t think that children have grown up. Benji is an actor and he knows how to act as an adult. As the plot develops, we can see him gradually lose his evil, cruel and ruthless protective shell. What is the collaboration with screenwriter Bruce Wagner? Bruce published his first novel Force Majeure in 1991, about a Hollywood stretcher driver. In a sense it is robert The role played by pattinson: dream of becoming an actor or director, but living as a driver. I think his novel is great. We started to become fuel injection. For a few years we have been looking for opportunities to cooperate, mainly for TV series. But it never happened. Bruce wrote the screenplay of the Star Atlas 15 years ago. I read it more than 10 years ago and liked it a lot. Is it about the eternal theme of Hollywood/Babylon that fascinates you? You know, I am not against Hollywood. I didn't feel compelled to attack it. Some people like to make movies about movies, or write novels about writing. this is not me. I can't write such a script. Contrary to me, Bruce lives and works and grew up in Hollywood. I couldn't see what he saw but I could understand. Anyway, I have also had a relationship with Hollywood for 40 years, and I also have a lot of peculiar experiences, just like what is said in the movie. Our cooperation is very close and has produced a deep connection with each other. When Bruce was writing the script, in order to modify, we kept calling and discussing characters and so on. Even when we were shooting, we did not stop talking about the characters and modify them in dialogue. Many of them were modified during shooting. How does this long-term work achieve such an impactful depiction of Hollywood, both modern and immediacy? Julianne Moore accepted the invitation eight years ago. When I looked for her again, she said yes again. But we should make some adjustments to the role, at least the age should be older-in my opinion this is better. Thanks to the way I work with Bruce, the adjustment was completed without much effort. This is an example of the constant transformations of the original script like an organism (constantes transformations organiques). In Hollywood, the pressure on actors over fifty years old is enormous. And Julianne's career is unbelievable: She has never stopped filming at 52 years old. And she knew that many actresses of her age, basically, no longer exist. Over a certain age, Hollywood has no interest in them. This is cruel. The fact that she is over fifty years old in the movie aggravates this cruelty. We saw that the character itself was immersed in despair, and she felt as if she no longer existed without a movie role. This is horrible. You have been alive, but for Hollywood, you are dead. The movie also bluntly involves plastic surgery and distortion. I used to chat with women who wanted to have plastic surgery, and every time I said "Don't do it!". You may find it strange, but I am really opposed to plastic surgery. The result is clear: they are no longer humans. This is really sad and hopeless. I don't understand this desire to deny aging. I think there is a certain beauty in aging. I am the evidence, am I not? (Laughs) (ps is such a good-looking old man standing and talking, so cute) I firmly believe that we should accept the reality of the human body. And to fight, what we need to fight against should be the essence of mankind (l'essence de l'être humain). We are born, transformed, aging: this is reality. Art and religion help us escape this reality. I do not believe in that. I think "acceptance" includes beauty. Just look at Julianne Moore... Do you think the cult of youth under the Hollywood star system has changed in ten to fifteen years? The violence brought about by the competition among young stars is really new enough... I don't know. The illusion of youth has always existed. We are genetically set to explore youth-I mean Darwin, evolution. When we look for sexual partners, we always look for young and reproductive people. Of course, Western culture cannot represent everything. For example, in my country, Canada, women of a certain age experience things differently from Europeans. I may be exaggerating, but European women of the same age always wear elegant clothes, they are powerful, they have sex... In North America, they only shop. The opening and closing credits look innocent, like a starry sky picture on the ceiling of a baby's room. Is this irony? The star map (star=star=star) is sold to tourists who come to Hollywood from Kansas. It says where is Marilyn Monroe's house and where James Dean lives... The design is very childish. This shows that kind of very naive view of Hollywood. The characters in the movie are very naive, they are still children. But there is no hope for them. In my opinion, there is no more. I don't believe in the survival of the soul after death. After death we disappear, we are destroyed (annihilés). This does not mean that there is no hope in real life. But for the character, there is no hope. Hope the audience will accept this. Finally, let's talk about the book you are writing... It has been completed and will be published in Gallimard, France, a great publishing house. I can't say anything about the content of the story, except that there will be a character who is French and part of the story takes place in Paris. But wait and read it...
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