The Training of Camille - Session 2

My directorial debut was not fiction, but I directed actors recreating historical events. I was confident that I was going to manage it well. I had the training, the experience and I was working on a story that I knew I could handle. And looking at Camille and how she was responding to my instructions, to my teaching and to my directing, I was pretty confident.

In my previous movie I had a scene of a young couple crucified in the middle of a sugar cane field. The setting was Haiti in colonial times. They were black slaves. It was during the making of that movie, a mixture of docudrama with a surreal narrative, that I came up with a great idea. I dreamt up a character who is a young woman who has fantasies of saints. It's set in Colonial Cuba. That role, the one of the young woman with fantasies of Martyrs, was what I had in mind for Camille.

I was no longer worried about the role she was going to be playing in a few days. I was thinking of the future and perhaps it was with that excuse that I would persuade Camille to continue with these sessions. It was just an idea, a wish, not a plan. But it was becoming clear to me. I had to continue my work with Camille after the movie. And if I played my cards right, perhaps our relationship may grow to something beyond our work.