Breaking Baz: French Filmmaker Fleur Fortune Steers Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Olsen & Himesh Patel Into “The Danger Zone” For Dark Comedy Drama ‘The Assessment’ — Toronto Film Festival
deadline.comFilmmaker Fleur Fortuné says it was necessary to take Alicia Vikander and Elizabeth Olsen, the cast of her thrilling debut feature The Assessment, into “a danger zone” for them to fully comprehend the implications involved in making a movie set in a dystopian future where couples have to grovel for permission to have a child.
The film is an emotional minefield where people are harshly appraised by assessors to judge whether or not they would make suitable parents.
Fortuné says that she knew it was vital for her and the two actors to meet together before the shoot. “I wanted to put them at ease,” she says.
The Paris-based director had already conversed with Vikander. “When I met with Alicia, she was like, ‘This scares me a lot, but I really want to do it.’ That’s good, because I felt if she tells me that, it means that she wants to go in areas that she had never gone before.
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