"Every step that I have taken in my career has made me new to something, once again. I like not knowing everything and exposing myself to the unknown, he says. That same impulse led him to send a script for the film adaptation of The Father to Anthony Hopkins, an actor he had never met, and who Zeller would wind up directing in his cinematic debut, which won him an Oscar for best adapted screenplay and netted Hopkins his second Oscar for best actor."
"Thrust into notoriety, Zeller's work not just his three most popular plays, but the 15 projects he has written in total have now been staged in nearly 50 countries. Paradoxically, Zeller places a high value on keeping everything under control. He plans ahead for interviews, preferring not to have his photo taken, and gently reprimands anyone who breaks the peace of the still-closed bar of Madrid's Ritz Hotel, where our conversation takes place."
Florian Zeller began writing novels in the 2000s and won the Interallié Prize. He transitioned to theater, creating work for the Comédie-Française before shifting into drama and exploring familial trauma through The Father, The Mother, and The Son, a widely performed contemporary trilogy. He adapted The Father into a film starring Anthony Hopkins, earning an Oscar for best adapted screenplay and helping Hopkins win a best-actor Oscar. Fifteen projects by Zeller have been staged in nearly fifty countries. He values planning and control, avoids photographs, preserves calm surroundings, and approached his original screenplay Bunker—starring Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz—with intensity despite language challenges.
Read at english.elpais.com
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