She presented this proposal as a sign that "change" was underway.
After the election of the new presidency of the Académie des Césars and its board of directors, Corinne Masiero suggested proposing to Adèle Haenel the presidency of the next ceremony, scheduled for February 26, 2021. The latter marked the last evening of the Césars when leaving the Salle Pleyel after Roman Polanski's victory at the César for best director.
Corinne Masiero intervened within the framework of a discussion between members of the new general assembly of the Césars, just after the votes which appointed the new president of the Academy (Véronique Cayla), its vice-president (Éric Toledano) and the members of its board of directors.
During this session of "various questions", the actor Éric Métayer also asked the president to take very quickly "a clear position" on the question of the renewal of the members of the former general assembly.
Producer Marc Missonnier then proposed to create a working group on the overhaul of the statutes.
An initiative which was notably supported by director Radu Mihăileanu and lawyer Vincent Toledano.
The members of the office of the Caesars appointed on October 15
This Tuesday morning, the former patron of the National Center for Cinema and Animated Image (CNC) Véronique Cayla, 70, and filmmaker Éric Toledano, 49, were elected respectively president and vice-president of the Césars, with 85% of the votes.
The tandem was the only candidate to replace Margaret Menegoz, who had assumed the interim presidency of the Caesars since last February and the resignation of Alain Terzian.
After his election, the general assembly proceeded to the election of its board of directors, which now includes the actors Marina Foïs and Antoine Reinartz, the directors Pascale Ferran and Cédric Klapisch, the producers Alain Attal and Marie-Ange Luciani or the former boss of the CNC Frédérique Bredin.
The board of directors is now convened on October 15 to appoint the members of the office of the Caesars.
In the speech which followed her election, Véronique Cayla declared that she wanted "to invent a new model for the Césars, a collective, imaginative model" and "to invent a new ceremony, more agile, more flexible, more dynamic".
Eric Toledano, for his part, declared that he measured "all the responsibility that is ours to bring back a little calm and appeasement after a long time when the word
Caesar
has been associated with the word controversy."
"Let's get to work without delay," concluded the new president.
