He dropped the mask and the thick dark glasses.
In the sunny courtyard of a Parisian palace, a stone's throw from his studio apartment in the Marais, Alexandre Desplat tastes one of the rare moments of tranquility.
“Yesterday, we finished at 11 pm.
We're in the middle of recording sessions with the London Symphony Orchestra for the next
George Clooney
, he slips in his thin, hoarse voice.
Because of the Covid, we have to do everything on video.
I direct in front of a camera.
Besides, we will soon have to go back there: I have compositions waiting! "
“We”
are him and his artistic director: Dominique Lemonnier, alias Solrey.
Both muse and advisor, she is also his wife… and the mother of their two daughters, Antonia and Ninon.
He does not compose anything without asking his opinion and their life together is regulated like music paper.
"We have a fairly tight organization
,
" she
sums up with a certain sense of understatement.
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