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We are very curious to see your new film, Fjord, which you made this year, in Norway, with Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve. What was it like working with international actors, how was it filming in Norway?

Filming itself with them was not very different from what we always did in a Romanian film with Romanian actors. What is very different is working with a team that has a little other habits.

You know that we, in Romania, are very hardworking in the field of cinema because we work against the clock and against the budget. We work 12 hours a day and we pull hard to finish as soon as possible, we don’t have such moments when we beat the plains on the plateau and relax when it’s not the case, we can’t.

While in Norway, we had to somehow go through this small period of knowing each other and, in the end, it was OK, but we met somewhere in the middle.

They work, as a rule, 8 hours and, in the end, our 12, we agreed to work somewhere at 10 hours, with pause, with everything, with roads, with everything, but after that the punctual way in which we worked with Sebastian and Renate was no different.

They lived with us, they rehearsed with us, as with the other actors. Sebastian was very generous and did not come with a publicist, agent, I know what, on the plateau, he did not have a special caravan and treatment. Sure, he had his peace of mind, which he needed, but which all the actors had.

And this has helped us advance into some kind of European-American project, but mostly European. That is, he admitted to work less on the American model that we have no way to replicate here and fold on our way of working.