We pick it up on the phone, between a plane from Canada and a train to Lille.
The airline misplaced his suitcase, so while he talks to us, he slips a few things into a bag from his Parisian apartment.
Douglas Kennedy, the most European of American writers, who speaks impeccable French, will be president of the jury for the Panorama international selection at the Séries Mania festival, in the northern capital, from March 15 to 22.
For a week, around fifty series will be screened accompanied by master classes, meetings and debates.
Stars like Patricia Arquette, Kelly Rutherford, Bérénice Bejo and Camélia Jordana will walk the red carpet.
The American writer himself will host a master class and sign his latest book “And this is how we will live” (Ed. Belfond), a dystopia which imagines an America cut in two, in 2045. Confidences of a man affable, punctuating his sentences with great bursts of laughter.
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