“It’s conclave with champagne”: Jeremy Strong returns to his jury experience in Cannes
The actor was deeply marked by the films in competition, including the Palme d’Or, a simple Jafar Panahi accident.
And the golden palm of the best quote from the 78th Cannes Film Festival come back to … Jeremy Strong. During the traditional press conference of the members of the jury, organized after the announcement of the list, the American actor stole the show from his little comrades, as on the red carpets where he shone with his colorful outfits, describing how he had lived this extraordinary experience.
11 days of competition, 22 films to judge in an international jury bringing together four men and five women. For the star of Successionwho discovered the Croisette last year with The Apprenticeit was like “conclave with champagne“:
“”It’s great. I feel immeasurably inspired because I saw here. It was so invigorating, I will take all these works with me. It was a really wonderful experience, we really connected with these people. It’s like Conclave with champagne.“”
White smoke is out, and the jury therefore designated Jafar Panahi Like the Pope of Cannes. And Jeremy Strong did not deny the political dimension of the charts, explaining that they “had wanted to recognize films that were intrinsically transcendent“By following the line drawn by Robert de Niro at the opening of the festival, who had declared by receiving his palm of gold of honor only”The fascists must be afraid of art“.
“”It was our wish“, Laconically answered Strong about the two prizes given to The secret agent From Kleber Mendonça Filho (staging and male interpretation for Wagner Moura), which takes place during the dictatorship in Brazil in the 1970s. And to describe what he had felt when he saw a simple accident by Jafar Panahi, rewarded with the Palme d’Or, he quoted the poet Henrik Ibsen:
“”Ibsen said: ‘In the depths, there is a poem in a poem. And when you hear it, when you grasp it, you will deflected my song ‘. And I have the feeling that this film and the other FLMS have these poems inside the poem which allow us to grasp something ineffable that changed me.“Amen.
The Press Conference Jury of Cannes 2025:
