“Personally, I will get vaccinated as soon as I can!
», Entrusts us a director who will resume the path of the trays in the spring.
Since this fall, a few dozen shootings were interrupted due to cases of Covid, many film professionals are placing their hopes in the vaccine.
“This is our lifeline,” assures Olivier Zegna-Rata, general delegate of the Syndicate of independent producers.
This is THE solution to finally be able to work without having a sword of Damocles above your head.
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According to the producer representative, a large part of the profession is in favor of vaccination.
And the actors and technicians, who have lent themselves overwhelmingly to the discipline of PCR and antigen tests this fall, should rush to the syringes… as soon as they can access them.
"As we have set up tents in dedicated places to offer tests to actors and technicians, we will be able to facilitate vaccination, on filming or in our medical center,
(Editor's note: the Bergère health center in Paris)
", says Caroline Rogard from the Audiens group.
The social protection organization of the culture and media sector on Tuesday asked for authorization to be able to vaccinate at the Bergère health center.
Vaccination can in no case be a condition for hiring and no employer, in the world of culture as elsewhere, can require a "certificate" ...
"I will not oblige anyone, but I will strongly recommend the vaccine"
However, there could be some incentives or even some pressure.
As was the case this fall with the PCR tests: an actress told us that she had to present a negative before a scene with an elderly and famous actor, who refused to play with her without this sesame ...
The situation is comparable to the theater.
"Optimism goes through vaccination, insists Jean-Marc Dumontet, producer of shows.
As long as the virus does not decline, there is no room for us.
I will not oblige anyone, but I will strongly recommend the vaccine.
When you put your children in the nursery, they must be vaccinated and that doesn't shock anyone… Why would we procrastinate here?
The producer, also owner, in particular of Bobino and of the Antoine Theater, tells that, during his exchange of greetings with the actor Richard Berry, the two men wished each other… vaccines!