The series that 'Gilmore Girls' fans are eagerly awaiting

BarcelonaCharacters who talk a mile a minute and are almost always witty. This is one of the hallmarks of Amy Sherman-Palladino's series, adored by many for having created Gilmore Girls and The marvelous Mrs.The screenwriter and her frequent collaborator, her husband, Dan Palladino, have a new project in the works. The couple's film premieres this Thursday on Amazon Prime. Star, a dramedy that delves into the inner workings of two ballet colleagues, one from New York and the other from Paris. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel played the comic Lenny Bruce and here gives life to the director of the New York company. Star has never been so central. In Gilmore Girls Miss Patty's ballet academy often appeared, and in the short-lived Bunheads the protagonist was a showgirl from Las Vegas who ended up giving dance lessons at a small-town school. The screenwriter's fondness for this universe has a biographical explanation. CatsA call to join the comedy writing team Roseanne This led her to abandon the world of dance to dedicate herself entirely to television. "I've never lost my love and affection for ballet," the screenwriter and director explained in an interview on CBS.

"After Bunheads [cancelled after just one season] we'd always wanted to return to the world of dance. It was a really fun show that ended way too soon, so we wanted to fully immerse ourselves in the real world of adult dance. Paris has one of the oldest ballet companies, dating back to royal courts, while New York's is more up-and-coming and scrappy. The juxtaposition of the old world and the new world gave us an interesting story and background," Shermann-Palladino argued in a conversation with Los Angeles Times. In Star, following the decline in ticket sales, the director of Le Ballet National proposes to the director of the Metropolitan Ballet Theatre a talent exchange: the Parisian star Cheyenne (Lou de Laâge) moves to New York and the ballerina Mishi (Taïs Vinolo) exchanges the city of skyscrapers for the capital.

On both sides of the Atlantic

With The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, which recreated late 1950s New York with exquisite elegance, Shermann-Palladino took a qualitative leap forward in terms of production complexity. With the new series, the American director doubled the stakes by shooting in two cities, New York and Paris, and used two languages, English and French. After years of asking actors to speak faster to adapt to the rhythm of her dialogue, the screenwriter had to do just the opposite with the French interpreters, who, according to her, were faster than her.

One of the series' main attractions is the participation of Charlotte Gainsbourg, an actress completely unfamiliar with Shermann-Palladino's world and with little connection to television. Despite initial reluctance, the French actress accepted the role when the creators showed her they were open to incorporating her suggestions for the character of Geneviève, a director overwhelmed by her personal and professional life. Beyond her performance, Gainsbourg was instrumental in making the French dialogue more natural and realistic.