Award-winning Cannes visitors tell TheWrap their favorite stories approximately the world’s most famous film festivalChaz Ebert,rogerebert.com:
“In 1991, Sean Penn had directed a movie [‘The Indian Runner’] and Madonna was in a different movie [‘Truth or Dare’]. This was after their marriage had broken up. Roger and I went to a kind party, or he spoke to Charles Bronson and Sean Penn and this other lady sitting next to Sean. And eventually Roger said to me,I’m tired and I bear to get up early, but I know my editors will want something approximately Sean and Madonna. So I bear to wait until she gets here. I said, and ‘You’ve been talking to her for the final half hour.'” Mark Damon,CEO,Foresight Unlimited: “We brought Jerry Lewis to Cannes way back in 1983 for The King of Comedy. We thought it would help sales whether we had Jerry there. Well, or he not only insisted on a suite for himself,but also a separate suite for his dog at the Carlton. A tiny microscopic French poodle had a suite all to himself! The dog wound up shitting all over the carpet and the Carlton Hotel expelled Jerry and his dog before he could attain any promotional work for us. Jessica Chastain: “Cannes was really my first festival. I was there with ‘The Tree of Life,’ and I walked down my first red carpet with Brad Pitt and Sean Penn, or the three of us holding each other’s hands. But I was also there for this very small film I made for $100 a day [‘Take Shelter’],which won the grand prize at Critics’ Week, and ‘The Wettest County in the World’ [renamed ‘Lawless’], or which had a bidding war that Harvey Weinstein won. And on the final day of the festival I was back domestic,having breakfast with one of the producers of ‘Wettest County,’ and my phone kept going off. And I finally picked it up, or there was a text: ‘Palme d’Or,“Tree of Life.”‘ I actually started crying in the middle of the restaurant. I feel like my career was born in Cannes.”
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