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Le dichiarazioni Luc Besson tra Léon e Dracula - L'amore perduto. Masterclass al Lucca Comics 2025
Nov 8, 2025
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0:16
Uh, the problem is I don't like horror.
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I don't like Dracula.
0:26
It's too scary.
0:29
So, it's not the part that I like. I
0:32
like the
0:34
this man who wait 400 years
0:39
because he wants to see his wife again.
0:43
is very romantic.
0:47
This is what I
0:53
just want you to play
0:56
with the symbol,
1:00
but it's more to have fun.
1:06
My my favorite line in the movie
1:11
is Dracula who said, "To be honest, I
1:16
don't like the blood so much.
1:27
by the vampirism and fact
1:30
what what I like is the fact that God
1:34
don't allow him to die
1:38
and so he will try
1:43
but God doesn't want to
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and more interested by
1:49
what okay 400 years what he's going to
1:52
do
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I want to know
1:57
in a castle for 400 years. Who's going
1:59
to clean the castle?
2:03
I want to know.
2:05
So, I was more searching
2:08
to really knowing him better,
2:13
you know.
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Uh Danny
2:24
Danny is Danny Aman is genius first.
2:28
He did all the movie from Tim Burton and
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I love his music.
2:36
Uh what's interesting is 10 years ago I
2:39
made a commercial
2:42
and I fight to get his music
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and u I don't know it's it's a feeling
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between his his own world
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and and mine the one I want to create
2:59
for Dracula something fit.
3:05
So I call the agent
3:08
and then I have a zoom with him
3:12
and he looks a little bit like Dracula
3:16
already
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brown hair.
3:23
And after five minutes he say look I
3:26
have to tell you the truth.
3:31
It's 25 years I'm waiting to do a
3:33
Dracula.
3:39
So I was very lucky
3:43
and he read the script.
3:48
It's the first time in my life.
3:51
Someone is reading the script.
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Send me a text message every 20 pages.
4:01
Oh my god, I love this scene.
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Oh yes, this one is good.
4:07
So I follow him
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and uh and then after we start to work,
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he come on the set
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to get inspired
4:23
and you you can tell that he takes the
4:25
the movie very seriously.
4:30
give all these talent and I wait for
4:33
five months
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to to
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one thing at the beginning.
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But one day one day he showed me the
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first scene of the film
4:50
with the theme
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and and I cry.
5:11
No, no, I met him and
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I've seen what he have done. You can
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play everything.
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He's a genius.
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I'm very lucky.
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So as soon as we we start uh doing
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dogman,
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I say I want to do another one
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and I can do more with him.
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All my movies with him. It's okay.
5:44
He's
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he's so rich inside
5:50
and he has no fear,
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you know. He can he can give everything.
5:56
He can give drama,
6:01
laughing, everything.
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He has no fear, no
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no resistance to anything.
6:09
And he's so generous
6:14
and he's living in a small house with
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his wife and baby.
6:20
Doesn't get out. He doesn't care about
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the stars and
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system.
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He's a really a pure artist.
6:30
So for me is
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it's like having a Ferrari.
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I think um I think a director is like a
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a seller.
6:56
You know the C You have a lot of
6:59
experience,
7:07
but every time you get out,
7:11
the waves are never the same. The wind
7:13
is never the same
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and you have to deal with it.
7:22
So when you get an actress like Matilda,
7:27
50% is on the paper.
7:31
It's the script.
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And then after you have to deal,
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you have to you have to learn how she
7:41
is, who she is,
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the failure.
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Failure
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and how you can help her
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to take out the best of her.
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helping her.
8:02
Some actors needs a babysitting,
8:07
some other they need just to have some
8:09
sign.
8:15
So every everyone is different.
8:18
And you have Kristoff W two Oscars
8:22
Oscar. And so you basically have a lion
8:25
which is Matilda and a tiger.
8:31
So you have to be oh
8:35
you have to hold the thing. So you
8:38
there is no uh recipe
8:42
but you need to have all your senses
8:44
open
8:47
and you know sometime for example you
8:51
feel the actor and
8:54
something bother him.
8:58
It could be something in his back in the
9:01
costume
9:04
or it could be a word on the text
9:09
or it could be one of the technician
9:13
view him.
9:17
Maybe it's too hot.
9:21
The director has to find out in 10
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seconds.
9:28
You need to show to the actor that you
9:31
support him, you're with him.
9:35
When they feel that,
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they give everything.
9:42
So that's how it works.
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I think if you know when when you make
9:54
movies, you don't think
9:58
But now I'm older.
10:01
So I I look at what I have done
10:05
and I think it was always a loss
10:09
since the first since the first movie
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but two years ago, three years ago,
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you remember the co
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everybody was locked.
10:26
and I was like a lion in a cage.
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So I ask 10 friends of mine,
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two young actors
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and I take my phone
10:42
and I make a movie
10:45
Jun and John.
10:48
So maybe you can see it on the internet.
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If you can't find it, steal it.
11:03
And don't go to Cra.
11:13
And by the way, by the way, the to to be
11:17
able to go back to when I was 19 years
11:21
old
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just with the phone
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and it was
11:29
just about the acting
11:32
that that was so good.
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And I want to I asked myself I'm 60
11:43
years old,
11:47
make movies with big budget.
11:53
But do I lose the the flame?
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And no, I didn't use it.
12:14
I don't know.
12:17
I think you know when I was little
12:22
my parents were teacher of scuba diving.
12:28
So I live in Yugoslavia in Greece.
12:33
Uh have my first shoes at 9 years old.
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And uh no TV,
12:42
no radio, no cinema,
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nothing.
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The sky, the sea,
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fish.
12:53
And so I have to develop my imagination.
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I take a piece of wood
13:03
and it's a boat.
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and it became a spaceship
13:11
and a submarine.
13:14
It's the same little wood.
13:20
So since I'm very young,
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I developed this muscle
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to imagine all the time.
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So I guess it was my uh my tool
13:35
to Zen characters
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and uh my parents were separate.
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I was in a boarding school
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so pretty alone
13:52
and my best friend was my imagination.
13:58
So I start to write the fifth element
14:02
for example when I was 16.
14:08
Because I was so bored. When I open my
14:10
window, I see couch.
14:15
You want to escape. Believe me.
14:21
But for example,
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one day I'm in the street,
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35° July, very hot,
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and I see this man with a big coat,
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glass,
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and two suitcase.
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I say, "Wow, who is this guy? This looks
14:49
like a big guy as the why the coat is so
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big.
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He's hiding something.
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So I follow him
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and he comes in in a courtyard of a
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building
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and then he take the stairs. So I follow
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and then they disappear.
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And then I hear
15:16
two shotgun
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So I say, okay, so maybe the guy is a
15:21
killer.
15:22
What what could be in the suitcase?
15:24
Maybe acid. He wants to dissolve
15:27
someone.
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And that's the beginning of a level.
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I think I I I put all my energy
15:51
everywhere.
15:56
But color it's interesting because
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you always you always need one color to
16:02
guide you.
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Dracula.
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We start drawings
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and after a while
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we we took the purple.
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Red. Red was too bloody,
16:25
yellow too joyful.
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The green is too much in the nature.
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and purple. Purple was the color.
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When you decide the color, then the the
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design uh the the building of the
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decoration
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or the costume, they can start working.
16:52
And the guy who make the castle, for
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example, he he can see which color goes
16:57
with purple.
17:00
Copper for example goes very well with
17:03
purple. So then suddenly the castle
17:05
became
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full of copper
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and then it becames very uh
17:16
beautiful in a way
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but it goes with the character.
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For example, he's here for 400 years.
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He cannot get attached to anyone because
17:38
they're going to die.
17:43
So he will be attached to art.
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Because art never died.
17:54
So he became a little bit Dandy
17:58
love art.
18:01
So he love music, silk,
18:04
jewelry,
18:07
and that's how you create the the
18:09
environment. For example,
18:13
when you when you have time,
18:17
you slow,
18:21
you don't need to hurry.
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So the movement
18:27
And I see when he start rehearsing
18:34
before
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always doing this.
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So we're searching for iguanas
18:46
to give him some something to touch.
18:51
So it's really little piece by little
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piece you build.
18:57
It's not like one idea. Oh, let's do it
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this way or this way. It's not that.
19:03
It's like cooking, you know, like
19:11
until it's good.
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Oh, yes. At the beginning.
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You want to know the beginning?
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No.
19:36
Yes, for sure.
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Um
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I didn't I was 17
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and uh
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before that I want to take care of
19:48
dolphins
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but I get an accident diving
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and
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a stupid doctor
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told me that I I can't dive anymore.
20:08
And so at 17 I was lost
20:13
and I like uh music
20:17
pictures.
20:21
So I say oh maybe I can do something.
20:28
So I found a friend of a friend
20:34
come to see us on a short film. We're
20:37
making a short film.
20:42
So I come
20:46
and I see this big truck.
20:55
And I said to the the guy very French
20:58
with
21:03
excuse me, where is the where's the
21:06
shooting?
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the cable.
21:11
Follow the cable.
21:16
And I see the cable and I follow
21:20
comes inside the building
21:23
and there's a ball of light
21:29
10° more.
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Everybody was dressed for 12th century.
21:41
and I fall in love.
21:55
In fact, I was erased by basically my my
21:59
mother,
22:00
grandmother, my aunt,
22:04
my dad was not there. So, lots of women
22:06
around me.
22:09
and strong women.
22:13
They they work
22:17
they go straight and
22:21
that's how I that's what I learned
22:23
about.
22:25
So when when I was young and I see
22:28
movies where
22:30
the hero is always the man
22:35
like this and and the girl is crying on
22:38
the back. Oh, when are you coming back?
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I was never really convinced.
22:50
So naturally
22:53
I I I give my best for the male
22:56
character and the female character.
23:04
Personally I never made a difference
23:08
but it's true that
23:11
movie is so male oriented that suddenly
23:14
I look like a hoe.
23:23
And so that's maybe why why but big blue
23:29
is great but the two guys are good too.
23:32
Leon, you have Matilda.
23:35
I always, you know, try to give the best
23:40
women or men.
23:45
But after Nikita, it's true that I've
23:47
seen
23:49
especially in the American cinema,
23:54
suddenly all the actors say, "Oh, yeah,
23:56
okay, okay, I can have a gun.
24:02
And so I see a lot of movies now with
24:04
female character,
24:09
but they look like men.
24:13
So what's the point?
24:17
You know, it's
24:20
you take Nikita or Nikita or Anna,
24:23
they're much more
24:26
uh complex.
24:30
They steal woman
24:33
who knows how to fight. She's different.
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