Like many shootings, that of his film Le Palmier was stopped short by the Covid-19 health crisis. Dany Boon, then allowed himself to be inspired by confinement to kill boredom. The actor will direct with his partner Laurence Arné a film centered on a building whose inhabitants are confined, he announced to RTL.
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"We are writing a story that tells the life of a building that is actually confined ," said the 53-year-old actor-director to our colleagues. Shops on the ground floor, up to the maids' rooms. ” The project seems to be going well since the shooting should take place "by the end of the year," says the most popular of French directors.
Very surprisingly, I was less panicked, less freaked out, than I could have thought I was!
Dany BoonDany Boon, who has lived with family confinement, also recounts his anxiety about returning to normal life while the virus is still circulating. "There is no such thing as deconfinement for a hypochondriac," he explains. What is funny is that I am hypochondriac but when I saw the anguish of my children, I said to myself I have no right to be because I have to reassure them. ”
Precisely, the director of Supercondriaque could have indulged in his natural slope. It did not happen: "Very surprisingly, I was less panicked, less freaked out, than I could have thought to be!" , adds the actor.
The shooting of the "Palm tree" on pause for "an insurance story"
His next film Le Palmier , which was due to start filming in August, was put on hiatus because of "an insurance story," he says.
The film tells the life of a village in the white zone, which seeks to obtain 5G to "have access to the 21st century" , explains the actor whose "agenda pages have been blanked" in recent months.
"The mayor of the village chooses and orders an antenna pylon in the shape of a cypress, a fir tree or in the warm countries of palm" , he specifies.