Anne Paulicevich was decided to inform a narrative of feminine heroism after the start of her daughter and located her script’s inspiration after studying an article about ladies who work as prostitutes alongside the Belgian border. The end result was the script for her drama “Working Girls,” Belgium’s official choice for the 2021 Golden Globes and the 93rd Academy Awards.
However, she had a small drawback. She wanted to get entry to a brothel to do correct analysis.
“I was never in a brothel before and so I said to Freìdeìric (co-director) and to the producer, I won’t write this story if I didn’t meet these women,” Paulicevich tells TheWrap’s Steve Pond. “So I spent a lot of time in brothels, like around nine months for the writing.”
“Working Girls” facilities on Axelle, Dominique and Conso who leads a double life. Every morning they meet up of their public-housing car parking zone to commute to work collectively on the opposite aspect of the border. There, in a brothel, they develop into Athena, Circe and Hera. Ladies of enjoyment, on a regular basis heroes, every lady fights for her household and to maintain her dignity. When one of many ladies’s lives is in peril, they have to be a part of forces to beat adversity.
However, at first, Paulicevich was caught and provides that she “wanted to meet these women and I didn’t know how to do this.”
Paulicevich ran right into a good friend on the theater one evening and was venting about how she couldn’t get entry to a brothel. Unbeknownst to Paulicevich, her girlfriend had a relative with ties to the intercourse commerce.
“My cousin is the nephew of one of the biggest pimps in France and Belgium, he’s here tonight and I’m going to introduce you to him,” a shocked Paulicevich stated. The girlfriend launched Paulicevich to the nephew and he agreed to introduce Paulicevich to his uncle.
The uncle met Paulicevich for lunch and took her to a couple brothels nevertheless it was on the third one which was run by a younger lady, that Paulicevich hit paydirt. She went into “the sitting room” with all the women and the uncle launched Paulicevich as a screenwriter and never a journalist, giving the ladies a way of consolation and belief round Paulicevich.
“It was an incredible meeting and in fact, after I was with them a few days during the week, it was really easy,” says Paulicevich.
Paulicevich’s companion and co-director Freìdeìric Fonteyne discovered it unusual at first. “She came back home, she had to tell me a lot of stories and I have to say that sometimes it was it was too much for me,” says Fonteyne.
“She made me go there, and I met these women also and then I understood because when I came back I had to talk to her a lot and it was a very strong experience to meet them but all the process was quite very intense,” added Fonteyne.
Check out TheWrap’s full interview and Q&A with Freìdeìric Fonteyne and Anne Paulicevich, the administrators of “Working Girls” right here and above.
