, came down with the coronavirus symptoms that shut down production instantly. The filmmaker has been safely tucked away with wife and collaborator Catherine Martin and their kids.
, who knows a thing or two about global crises after coming through the threat of Nazi annihilation in WWII. Here, he discusses, well, everything.You are at your fishing hole, at a moment where you expected to be in production on your Elvis Presley. Can you describe how you’re feeling these days?: The word abstract seems right. Where I am right now, on my property overlooking a river, with my kids, we’re catching fish and crabbing and I’m seeing movies in a way I haven’t in a long time.
And it turned out we never had one more infection in the entire crew. And then of course, the state went into lockdown. In Australia, we have been doing extraordinarily well with the curve going down. I think we are in our third day with no cases. You don’t want to jinx it, but our curve is really flat and we and New Zealand have been able to get it right down. I think so far, it is being handled extremely well in Australia.
What’s not going to happen is two months go by and you flip a switch and go back to shooting like we did before. One thing I did say to Dr. Wattiaux is, we as filmmakers create the illusion of crowd activity. We are used to going on location in the middle of nowhere and having everyone isolated for months at a time, to make a movie. We’re like a caravan, a circus, and the idea of isolating ourselves and minimizing contact with those from outside is something very real for us.
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