Thomas Bidegein, director and screenwriter Suddenly alone released on December 6, returned to the eventful shooting of the first version of the film, in which the American actor was supposed to participate.
Acclaimed with both critical and commercial success, Suddenly alones released on December 6, however, has had a turbulent history. by number Technical card Released on January 23rd, we learn that three years before its release, the first version was already being filmed, with Jake Gyllenhaal and Vanessa Kirby playing the main characters instead of Gilles Lelouch and Melanie Thierry, who we see in the film. But nothing went as planned, and the American version didn’t make it past four miserable days of filming.
Genesis
For this film, Thomas Bidegein, Audiard’s regular screenwriter (Of rust and bone, Diff…) and director CowboysIn 2015, he sees everything big. In 2020, he hires an American actor who has been revealed. Donnie Darko and a British actress best known for her portrayal of Princess Margaret The crown. Delighted, the former even became a co-producer of the film and was eager to start shooting. “One evening I got a phone call from Jake. He considers the scenario wonderful, exciting and assures that he wants to be a part of the adventure. I open the champagne, I’m in my manic phase,” he says Technical card French director. Even though the lockdowns are back-to-back due to Covid, there is still a date for actors to do readings three months before filming; “The script has been validated and reconfirmed, it is ready to be shot (…). Well, that’s what we thought…” So the team will meet again in July 2021 in Iceland.
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Total shipwreck
the script of Suddenly alone tells the story of a couple who decide to go out to sea to save their marriage and find themselves trapped on a desert island after a storm. But, by the time the crew arrives in Iceland, the idea of a shipwreck will take over filming to the point of crushing it. Upon arrival, Jake Gyllenhaal decides to drive 6 hours rather than get on the plane, requests “a car that’s neither red nor white,” and asks to change elements of the script because, he says, he needs to “get closer. the truth “. But it’s only on the second day that the discomfort will really emerge. In the morning, the actor is furious because of a misunderstanding about the schedule, seems to be disappointed with the setting – the Icelandic mountains, and decides to rewrite the script once again, because the whole thing would have been too comfortable, not dangerous enough. “Jake talks a lot about TRUTH, insists that his character be an ex-GI used to survival… For example, for the scene on the boat, he sells us the idea that he’s slapping a fish “, Beidegein recalls. The actor even unexpectedly leaves the scene… Only a few hours later he sends the Frenchman an ambiguous message: “I adore you”.
Bipolarity
On the third day, Jake Gyllenhaal walks in nature and meets a sea pirate face to face. While still in the writing room, he says that he felt a real connection with nature and suggests that the film should focus on this theme. “He soon put Greta Thunberg on his computer with rock music in the background,” Thomas recalls. It lasts a quarter of an hour“. The team then sees the American actor in the most total accent yet again, crying and screaming “I’m crying, I’m crying, it’s real tears!” [Je pleure, je pleure, ce sont de vraies larmes, NDLR]. “It was the biggest laugh of my life. Jake tells us that it’s not a film about love, but a film about the love of nature,” says a member of the film’s team, before adding: “He declares that we must rewrite everything, all declarations of love must be declarations addressed to nature. . I see Thomas telling himself that he is losing his 26 million. Then he turns to me and says. “How do you say ‘squeeze’ in Icelandic?” Because that’s exactly what happened…”
The next day, Thomas Bydegain decides to give everyone a break and take the army to fresh air. “When I see the sea, I swim in the sea,” says Jake Gyllenhaal, before jumping into the three-degree water in his underwear. Returning to the hotel, the latter gets angry for the umpteenth time… One very for the French director, who orders the American star to leave. Which performs? Without Jake Gyllenhaal and Vanessa Kirby (who is also leaving), the film’s budget disappears, and that’s the end of this months-long adventure. Another popular version of the film was released two years later, in Moliere’s language and with two French actors.
Source: Le Figaro
