The Covid-19 epidemic has had serious consequences for the culture and entertainment community. Top chef, The Voice, The best pastry chef… Many TV shows have had to adapt in order to continue to air. But it is above all the seventh art which took the full brunt of the crisis. Closed since the end of October 2020, the cinemas are desperately empty and the canceled film releases are cumulative. In his televised address of March 31, 2021, the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron announced the gradual reopening of places of culture from the second half of May. A date that film professionals are waiting for like the messiah. Another option seems to comfort them: the acceleration of the vaccination campaign in France. In an interview with Parisian / Today in France on Sunday April 25, actress Virginie Efira explained that she believed a lot in this solution.
Virginie Efira tells how she protects herself from Covid-19 during love scenes
Asked if she had been vaccinated, the 43-year-old actress replied: “No. I would like to”. The one who played in the movie Goodbye idiots Albert Dupontel, multi-awarded at the César 2021 ceremony in March, detailed the conditions under which she has been working for months: “We shoot without a mask”. A situation which, during love scenes, can be problematic: “We get tested twice a week and, if I have to kiss someone, believe me I ask them if they have done their PCR”. For Virginie Efira, there is only one way to get out of this impasse: “We really have to speed up the vaccination”. It must be said that she has something to be impatient with: she can not wait to present the film Benedetta, by Paul Verhoeven, which is to be screened in Cannes. “If Cannes holds up, I’m going”, qualified Virginie Efira. “It was a very foundational shoot for me, on a very very daring subject. At one point, I ended up thinking that this movie would come out when I was 68 years old “.
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