French director Julia Ducournau, who burst onto the world filmmaking scene in 2016 with “Raw,” admits it wasn’t easy to come up with her latest film, “Titane.”“I think that it is the hardest script I’ve ever had to write, although I’m very young in my career,” she tells Variety’s Awards Circuit Podcast.
“But I think that I never struggled as much as I did for this one for many reasons.
I was very scared of the expectations that people had for my second film, knowing that “Raw” had found its success.”On the podcast, Ducournau discusses her journey to creating the new project and her struggle to connect with the main character.
Listen below!“When it’s your first feature, no one expects anything, because no one even knows you exist,” she says.
“So this is something that I struggled with very much I also struggled with my own expectations.
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