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Initially, the announcement of the confinement was rather good news for Mathieu Kassovitz. "I am a very homebody, I often work at home and said to myself 'it will be even better, no one will disturb me, I will be able to write and create'". The actor and director says he was quickly disillusioned. "I was looking at the ceiling all day, it really gave me a boost."
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"A kind of divine justice"
Confined with his children, "in a beautiful house with space", the hero of the series The office of legends considers living confinement "like a rich man". The fifth season of the series was released on April 6, and he said, it echoes the situation that the French and the whole world live today. "It is a fairly anxiety-provoking series in the sense that we show you the underside of the cards, and in our daily life, we are really in this underside of the cards", he poses. "It is as if this world, which only affects certain people concerned, suddenly has overturned on the whole of civilization."
This upheaval, Mathieu Kassovitz associates it with "a kind of divine justice" which must push us to reflection and to a global change. "I hope that we will realize that we are on a very small planet, that we are all connected to each other and that it does not take much for everything to change", expresses he. Optimistic and convinced that our generation can and must mark the history of the world, the actor adds that "if we are able to react to that, maybe we will be able to influence in a stronger way our leaders who have themselves must have been deeply shocked in their beliefs. "
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"They were all aware!"
The leaders, the very ones who, according to Mathieu Kassovitz, could not fail to know. "They were all aware of it," he denounces, referring to the hypothesis of a pandemic as a known risk, even run in advance. "Science fiction writers have made it their subject for decades; there are files on the desks saying that pandemics are a mandatory future to be prepared for," he said.
So why not get ready? "Because they do not take things seriously, in the same way that they do not prepare for climate problems because they do not take them seriously", abounds Mathieu Kassovitz, who considers that the lack of governments' anticipation of Covid-19 is above all linked to the economic model of our societies. "It is very difficult to conceive of an entire economic system where money is made for the preservation of life and all that makes up our freedoms," he said, adding that the economy based on capitalism does nothing. "When the machine stops working, we start to think differently".
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Indeed, the director of La Haine is convinced: "We are part of an era that will mark the history of the world in the coming centuries", he assures, hoping that the French will emerge from this experience. "We are all anxious but very independent, and we are aware that we can manage ourselves; we do not need the police, we do not need the state, we manage to understand the problems by ourselves- same ", he asserts. "Now let's see how we get out of it in community".