Short talk with Cyrill and Tristan, the real-couple starring on my latest film “Doing Elliot”

Shooting “Doing Elliot” was special for many reasons. First, it has a complex script, based on a story of two people that have met long before and whose desire is still effervescent even after many years. The plot was intense and full of mixed feelings, and that is one of the things I love the most about cinema.

The best part, though – and part of the uniqueness of the film – is that I had the chance to film it with a real-life couple. Thomas and Elliot characters are played by the incredible Cyrill (Thomas) and Tristan (Elliot), two fantastic performers who accepted the particular challenge of having sex in front of the camerasseveral times about drawing a will, that Mr. Simmons gave the witness the names of the persons he wanted his property to go to; that Miss Williams' name was mentioned, but the testator said he "didn't feel that she was entitled to anything as far as he was concerned, and he was not going to leave her anything"; that when the will was prepared, the witness took it to Mr. Simmons and read it to him and explained the language used, although, as stated by this witness, "Mr. Simmons was a pretty shrewd man; he didn't need much explaining. ... I read the will over to him once, and he asked me to read it to him again, and I read it to him again, and asked him