Jessica Lee Gagné
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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Yeah.
It looks like it's lit by me.
It's very... It's like mole beams.
Oh, molebeam, it's a type of light we use in film for lighting. It's tungsten, so it's very warm. And to me, it's the light that most looks like the real sun. So I love using it because it looks real.
Thanks, Ben.
I think it's at least seven. We're at seven.
I see everything in cycles of seven years, though.
You know, I don't know if I ever told you this, but I, you know, you speak about fate and I definitely believe in certain things being timed and faithful. But when I got the email from the producer about this, I cried because I knew it was going to happen. And I like the moment I read the email, it's like my life kind of like flashed before me. And I was like, this is going to be amazing.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And it's weird because it relates to Seven a little bit. And, you know, people ask me why Seven. And to me right now, I think it's like Seven found me in a way. And I feel like that about Severance. Like, I think Severance found you and it found Dan and it found the right people to make it. And this weird, like, it's this weird force that moves at its own pace.
I watched so many different things. And like I, I did work for my father in his video stores, plural, he had many of them. And you know, I used to actually work with him sometimes in the summers and travel with him in his truck because he was also a distributor. So he would, you know, bring movies to like small grocery stores or little stores in little towns.
And we would go in there and switch up their VHSs, bring them the new stuff. And Crazy, interesting little life journey there.
I saw the transition from VHS to DVD. I really lived that. And I saw, you know, how that impacted that industry. But, you know, one thing that's really interesting that I see intergenerationally in my family and between my father and I is that here I am now shooting for Apple and Netflix or whatever, you know, all of these streaming services.
And my father doesn't have any of these services and is still, I think, you know, feels how they impacted his business. And I'm kind of like going into that next generation, which is interesting that always has stayed with me.
It survived because of the culture of Quebec in a way. And I started a documentary that I never finished, but maybe one day I'll finish it about these last video stores, because I believe they were probably some of the last video stores in the world, or at least in North America. And they survived because they were in regional areas.
And in Quebec, it took a long time before like Netflix really introduced French content, or those streaming services did that. And there's also regions that internet is actually really expensive. And It is the way that people get together is going to the video store and watching movies together.
So for a long time in those regions, it was I mean, I think the stores closed like one or two years ago now, the last one, really, but they were still functioning.
Yeah.
All the time. I always had like a box of VHSs at my house and some mornings before school I would start a movie and then I'd come back after school and I'd finish the movie because I wouldn't have time in the morning to watch the whole thing. And like my dad would bring us to the movies several times a week when we were kids. And we're watching American movies mostly.
Like I grew up watching American films. even more than French Canadian films. And it's when I started going to school in film production, that's where I really got into more international filmmaking. And my mom kind of also pushed me into that because she introduced me to like foreign language films and things like that.
Well, the first film that made me realize what filmmaking could be, I think, was City of God by Fernando Meirelles. That movie, it blew my mind. I loved American films growing up and was watching things like Little Shop of Horrors and all those things. But when I saw City of God, I was like, okay. This is like you can create something on a whole other level. And that really fascinated me.
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