Recent Interviews Links

[scielle]

Any recordings of the Australian interview? Believe it already aired, right?

[Nmj]

Any recordings of the Australian interview? Believe it already aired, right?

 

Isn’t it at 10am Australian time?

[ewh12]

I don’t think this is the full one but they just uploaded this:

 

[ewh12]

And now, this is the interview:

 

[tshlw]

Hmm I recorded it off the channel and there was more where she talked about John Farnham and the director Irene was with her.

 

https://youtu.be/KKR1veI7KwA

 

https:// youtu.be/KKR1veI7KwA

Edited June 17, 2024 at 12:05 AM by tshlw

[Celine Fan 77]

Full TF1 interview with English subtitles

 

[tshlw]

Going to post several posts each one will be about a specific interview or print article.

[tshlw]

NBC Interview with Hoda Kotb and videos related to it (US TV)

 

Interview - Celine's Story

https://youtu.be/ZykK-W8wIaA

 

https://u.pcloud.lin...dmcjCKmJQirtQUk

 

Making Space w/Hoda Podcast

https://open.spotify...65ff1fb70684d45

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acxXKaV8ciM&t=1s&pp=ygUibWFraW5nIHNwYWNlIHdpdGggaG9kYSBrb3RiIGNlbGluZQ%3D%3D

 

WRAL News - Hoda Kotb previews Celine Dion opening up about rare disorder, 'stiff person syndrome'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rSx27-G-v0

 

ET Segment: Céline Dion Interview: Hoda Kotb Shares What Surprised Her Most (Exclusive)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luRX6F5T2TM

 

Hoda Interview with Spanish Subtitles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDUDox7Ic48

 

NBC interview discussed on Wondery’s Rich and Daily podcast

https://youtu.be/WFCL4YyJRtY

 

https://open.spotify...mBakiHdTOBMEFah

 

Dr. Amanda Piquet, director of the Autoimmune Neurology Program at CU Anschutz Medical Campus, has been treating singer Celine Dion for two years. "9News":

https://youtu.be/a2Eqr8Hav9c

Edited June 17, 2024 at 03:55 AM by tshlw

[tshlw]

CBC Interview and related videos (English Canadian TV)

 

Interview: Celine Dion: I Will Sign Again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US3oUdVxdPM

 

CBC Podcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRo3EecIvVY

 

https://open.spotify...03d0e612ba4405e

 

The Current with Matt Galloway Podcast (22min in)

https://www.cbc.ca/l...ning-indigenous

 

World Report with Marcia Young, John Northcott Podcast (7:28 in)

https://www.cbc.ca/l...ries-10-minutes

 

Why rare conditions like Céline Dion’s are so hard to diagnosis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCm2nMwDKec

 

Live with Stephen Quinn (~20 min in)

https://www.cbc.ca/l...ger-celine-dion

 

Daybreak South with Chris Walker

https://www.cbc.ca/l...ommunity-centre

 

Daybreak Kamloops (about ~1hr 50 min into the show)

https://www.cbc.ca/l...explainer-totem

 

Outpouring of support for Céline Dion from her fans

https://youtu.be/2jnH-sCVIs0

Edited June 17, 2024 at 03:55 AM by tshlw

[tshlw]

BBC Interview and related videos (UK TV)

 

BBC News at 6 preview

https://vimeo.com/957965538?share=copy

 

Interview: Celine Dion Sickness and Singing

https://youtu.be/3vfSpskd6xs

 

https://u.pcloud.lin...Aq8UMzpzfpIfRm7

 

BBC 5 Live Drive at 02:41:03 in Tara Zier of SPSRF on to discuss Celine

https://www.bbc.co.u...s/play/m0020134

 

From BBC - What's it like to live with stiff-person syndrome?

https://youtu.be/ffdQI6qwWlM

Edited June 17, 2024 at 03:56 AM by tshlw

[tshlw]

TF1 Interview and articles (French TV)

 

Preview of Interview with TF1 airing Sunday June 16th

https://www.francetv...f1_6575315.html

 

Gala has an interview with Anne-Claire Coudray and her impressions.

https://www.gala.fr/...rdinaire_545465

 

20 Minutes Interviews Anne-Claire Coudray

https://www.20minute...m_medium=Social

 

 

Interview in French

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-NK06SiLs4

 

Interview With English Subtitles

https://youtu.be/PLpE5gNRjHM

Edited June 17, 2024 at 03:56 AM by tshlw

[tshlw]

TVA Interview and articles (French Canadian TV)

 

Céline Dion : "Je l’ai sentie vulnérable», dit Jean-Philippe Dion"

https://youtu.be/mX6UCPEhqbU

 

C’est comme si Céline Dion avait vraiment tué Céline, dit Josélito Michaud

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qzID22AnCc

 

Interview in French

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXvGZ_NHkaQ

 

Interview with English Subtitles

https://youtu.be/X8sU4sSs4Mc

Edited June 17, 2024 at 03:56 AM by tshlw

[tshlw]

News Ch7 Sunrise (Australian TV)

 

Interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IjysdWkBAo

 

Celine talking about John Farnham

https://youtu.be/QPa7ZE-3Ys4

Edited June 17, 2024 at 03:56 AM by tshlw

[tshlw]

People Magazine

 

Online Article

https://u.pcloud.lin...qbfFxDzkujsvUd7

 

Why shared Diagnosis

https://people.com/c...agnosis-8660684

 

How Rene is still with her

https://people.com/c...clusive-8661315

 

Her Sons

https://people.com/c...clusive-8660856

 

Detailing Symptoms

https://people.com/c...clusive-8661041

 

Valium Struggle

https://people.com/c...clusive-8661306

 

Effect on Voice

https://people.com/c...terview-8659959

 

Almost Died

https://people.com/c...terview-8653743

 

Changing her songs

https://people.com/c...ymptoms-8661387

 

Grammy Appearance

https://people.com/c...clusive-8663323

 

Timeline of SPS

https://people.com/c...imeline-8662321

 

Celine's Dr’s Plea for more research

https://people.com/c...clusive-8663616

Edited June 17, 2024 at 03:53 AM by tshlw

[scielle]

Adding to this compilation the various recent interviews with Irene.

(Let's try to keep discussion in other threads so this can be an easy reference thread of links.)

 

Global News/ The Morning Show

 

Toronto Sun

 

Reel Talk with Chuck & Pam

 

Manny the Movie Guy

 

In print:

 

Oregon Live

https://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/2024/06/portlands-irene-taylor-on-directing-i-am-celine-dion-a-powerful-portrait-of-the-singer.html?outputType=amp

 

W Magazine

https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/celine-dion-documentary-director-interview

 

Montreal Gazette

https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/celine-dion-film-shows-the-star-in-excruciating-pain-from-her-illness

 

The Nightly (Aus)

https://thenightly.com.au/culture/film/i-am-celine-dion-documentary-reveals-brutalness-of-singers-health-battle-with-stiff-person-syndrome-c-15097200

 

Newsletter (UK)

https://www.newsletter.co.uk/arts-and-culture/film-and-tv/i-am-celine-dion-director-describes-singers-illness-i-watched-her-body-go-stiff-in-front-of-our-camera-i-feared-she-wasnt-breathing-4672324

 

USA Today

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2024/06/19/celine-dion-documentary-stiff-person-syndrome/74137104007/

 

Le Devoir

https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/ecrans/815243/documentaire-irene-taylor-intimite-celine-dion

[scielle]

Adding the latest interviews with Irene:

 

 

Channel 9 Australia (includes video)

https://honey.nine.com.au/videos/celebrities/celine-dion-documentary-director-irene-taylor-opens-up-about-filming-star-following-rare-diagnosis/clxs9jhbp00010gqxj999804a

 

Metro (UK)

https://metro.co.uk/2024/06/24/celine-dion-wails-seizure-unbearable-documentary-footage-21083932/

 

Boston Herald:

https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/06/24/megastar-an-open-book-on-health-in-i-am-celine-dion/

 

The Strait Times:

https://www.straitstimes.com/life/entertainment/celine-dion-gently-cried-watching-own-documentary-about-her-stiff-person-syndrome-suffering

 

Hindustan Times

https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/hollywood/exclusive-interview-i-am-celine-dion-director-irene-taylor-i-did-not-make-the-film-for-the-fans-101719155142922.html

 

Yahoo Entertainment

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/why-celine-dion-didnt-want-to-cut-stiffening-episode-from-her-documentary-she-felt-validated-seeing-herself-like-that-director-says-130024829.html

 

Tele 7 Jours:

https://www.programme-television.org/news/streaming/prime-video/je-suis-celine-dion-prime-video-elle-n-etait-pas-malheureuse-mais-elle-souffrait-nous-confie-la-realisatrice-irene-taylor-4729646

 

Le Parisien:

https://www.leparisien.fr/culture-loisirs/musique/sa-crise-est-la-pire-chose-que-jai-jamais-filmee-les-coulisses-du-documentaire-sur-celine-dion-24-06-2024-MYPS2V3RGFAM7GQQVNSOLTLQYU.php

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[scielle]

Latest interviews with Irene:

 

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Video: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-25/c%C3%A9line-dion-doco-offers-glimpse-into-singers-life/104018134

Print: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-25/i-am-celine-dion-movie-review-stiff-person-syndrome/104000932

 

News18 (India)

https://www.news18.com/movies/exclusive-i-am-celine-dion-director-irene-taylor-calls-nyc-premiere-jarring-people-laughed-when-i-8943411.html

 

Irish News

https://www.irishnews.com/entertainment/celine-dion-did-not-want-any-changes-to-footage-of-spasm-in-film-says-director-HGWN3M5ZMZOTDFXFK3TEEVUHHU/

[Nmj]

Is this new?

 

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[Critiaslux]

There are so much stuff that a month is needed at least to go through all of them and process

[scielle]

More interviews with Irene:

 

Breakfast TV

https://www.breakfasttelevision.ca/videos/i-am-celine-dion-director-irene-taylor-on-creating-the-powerful-film/

 

Variety

https://variety.com/2024/music/news/celine-dion-documentary-i-am-irene-taylor-director-interview-1236048365/

 

New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/movies/celine-dion-documentary-seizure-stiff-person-syndrome.html

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Celine Dion Had a Medical Emergency. The Camera Kept Rolling

Irene Taylor, director of the new documentary “I Am: Celine Dion,” talks about the decision to include a grueling scene of the pop star in crisis.

By Annie Aguiar

June 25, 2024, 4:20 p.m. ET

This article contains spoilers.

Celine Dion welcomed the cameras. For the new documentary “I Am: Celine Dion” (streaming on Amazon Prime Video), the singer set no restrictions on what to film.

What follows is a painfully intimate portrait of a pop star’s body fighting itself. Dion announced in 2022 that she had stiff person syndrome, an autoimmune neurological condition that causes progressive stiffness and severe muscle spasms. During a session with her physical therapist that was being filmed for the documentary, Dion has a seizure. The camera continued to roll throughout the medical crisis.

In an interview via video call on Monday, the director, Irene Taylor, discussed shooting the documentary and why Dion’s emergency was included in the final cut. These are edited excerpts from the conversation.

How far into preproduction did you learn about Dion’s illness?

I spoke with her at length, and I did not know she was ill. We were in the middle of the pandemic and I didn’t think twice about her being at home. Most of us were, and performers around the world were sort of out of commission temporarily.

We got to a place where we agreed to make the film. It was several weeks after that mutual decision that her manager asked me for a call. I figured it must be something serious because we got on the phone that day, and he told me that Celine was sick and that they didn’t know what it was. We were filming several months before there was a definitive diagnosis.

After getting the diagnosis, was the conversation on the table to stop filming?

Definitely not. When I realized that a) she had a problem with no name and b ) when I actually started filming I could see how her body looked different, her face looked different, I was able to focus. The iris of my perspective got much smaller.

There was a point when I first decided I was going to do the film and I thought, “What am I going to do? Go on tour with her?” When I found out about the diagnosis, it narrowed the scope of how I would enter into her life.

Music documentaries authorized by their subjects aren’t known for depth or extremely personal moments. This, by contrast, is very raw. Were there early discussions on how much you could show?

There were no discussions on parameters, and that is because Celine did not ask for those parameters. She said to me, on the very first day, “You’re in my home, the fact that you’re here means I have let you in. Don’t ask me permission to shoot anything.”

I felt like I had to take that access with tenderness, dignity and class. There’s a lot that the camera does not see. If there was a little bit of tension or discomfort, I would back off. That’s partly what built trust over time, that she gave me everything but I didn’t take it.

Tell me about your reaction in the moment toward the end of the documentary, when Dion starts to seize up during physical therapy.

I could just see this stiffness that was not like the flowing, lithe dancer that I had been filming for several months doing her physical therapy. Within a couple of minutes, she was moaning in pain.

I wanted to know if she was breathing, because she was moaning and then she stopped. I put the microphone, which was at the end of a pole you can discreetly put closer to your subject, underneath the table. I couldn’t hear her breathing.

I was very panicked. I was looking around the room, and I saw that her therapist called for her head of security. Her bodyguard immediately came into the room. I could see right away these two men were there to take care of her and they were trained to do it.

Probably within about three minutes, once this human response to want to be helpful and drop everything subsided, Nick [Midwig, the film’s director of photography] and I eased into filming everything as it happened. It was very uncomfortable. I’ve never been in a situation with a camera that has been that touch and go.

There’s one shot on her face for close to two minutes, forcing us to really see her wrenched in pain. Why did you make the decision to not cut away for so much of that?

I spent my 20s living in Southeast Asia, and I learned a lot about observation through Buddhist teachings. There’s a Tibetan Buddhist parable about this goddess named Green Tara, who is said to be disguised and living in the world as a suffering human.

The parable teaches you that when you see a suffering being on the side of the road, when you see someone’s body ravaged by poverty or ravaged by violence, you should not look away because if your love can touch someone’s experience, you’re cultivating compassion.

I love my profession because I’m trying to access a human experience I may not have direct contact with. But if I don’t look away, if I look at this and I don’t flinch, it cultivates something in me that makes me try to understand that person better.

So we didn’t cut away. There were moments where I was like, OK, this is really intense. I let it go two or three seconds more, and then I would cut. I wanted to go just far enough that it makes people think about their own experience and not to run away. There are uncomfortable aspects of being alive, and if cinematic storytelling can get us closer to tolerating that discomfort, I want to do that with my films.

What was the conversation like with her once she had seen the documentary?

I did not bring it up with her until I showed her the entire film months later. I went into showing it to her with the idea that she might just say, let’s please not include that. That would not have been unreasonable.

She cried through most of the film. I was watching her out of the corner of my eye, but I was a little embarrassed to watch because that was such an intimate moment for her. The first thing she said to me was, “I think this film can help me.” Then she said, “I think this film can help others understand what it’s like to be in my body.”

Deeper into our conversation, she said, “I don’t want you to change anything in this film, and I don’t want you to shorten that scene.” She just called it “that scene,” and we both knew what she was talking about.

Did you talk about how Dion’s family, including her three sons, would respond?

Celine did not bring this up with me. I really let her lead the dance on anything sensitive.

I showed her the film a second time. She said, “I’m going to let the younger boys watch the movie with me, and I’m going to walk them through the film, and I’m going to let them understand what happens to my body.”

If I could have filmed that scene, that would have been the quintessential Celine. Celine, the mother. Celine, the woman who is suffering. Celine, the woman who is trying to learn something and teach something out of her own suffering to her children.

She was holding their hands and they did not seem visibly upset watching. I think it was because their mother was saying, “It’s OK, it’s just the disease. This is just what happens.”

 

 

 

 

ABC (Australia) - audio

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/stop-everything/celine-dion-review/104018918

 

LA Times

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2024-06-25/i-am-celine-dion-documentary-irene-taylor-director

 

Salon.com

https://www.salon.com/2024/06/25/i-am-celine-dion-irene-taylor/

 

NBS Times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQgYNwG7R_M

 

Fox / Gino at the Movies

https://www.fox6now.com/real-milwaukee/i-am-celine-dion-gino-movies

Edited June 25, 2024 at 11:35 PM by scielle

[Nmj]

[scielle]

More with Irene:

 

The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/jun/26/i-am-celine-dion-gurney-stiff-person-syndrome-tragic-condition-vegas

 

NZ Herald

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/i-am-celine-dion-director-irene-taylor-reflects-on-the-making-of-the-harrowing-documentary/IFXOJHSEEZGJ3NRFU4XIXZCSPE/

 

NDTV

 

Reel Talk with Ben O'Shea

Edited June 26, 2024 at 08:53 PM by scielle

[tshlw]

More with Irene:

 

The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/jun/26/i-am-celine-dion-gurney-stiff-person-syndrome-tragic-condition-vegas

 

NZ Herald

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/i-am-celine-dion-director-irene-taylor-reflects-on-the-making-of-the-harrowing-documentary/IFXOJHSEEZGJ3NRFU4XIXZCSPE/

 

NDTV

 

Reel Talk with Ben O'Shea

 

Is there a single news organization in the world she has not spoken with

[Nmj]

 

 

Is there a single news organization in the world she has not spoken with

 

At least she doesn’t work for Sony music or she wouldn’t have been on a single one.

[Peppercorn1991]

scielle,

 

Thank you so much for the work you have done to keep the forum updated. Very kind of you.

 

THANK YOU!

 

Kev x

[scielle]

Some more from Irene:

 

Cleide Klock

 

The West Australian

https://thewest.com.au/entertainment/celine-dion-bares-all-in-new-documentary--c-15140106

[scielle]

These two are in the Doc thread, but buried deep and hard to find, so putting here for easy reference. Both of these are such gems, I'm still gobsmacked we got them.

 

I Am: Celine Dion, in her own words

 

English:

 

 

French:

 

 

Also, there's a mini Irene interview on this IG (seriously, who do they have her talking to?!)

 

Rachel Smith Vegas

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8sz8j9v2UZ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Edited June 30, 2024 at 01:42 PM by scielle

[tshlw]

 

Also, there's a mini Irene interview on this IG (seriously, who do they have her talking to?!)

 

Rachel Smith Vegas

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8sz8j9v2UZ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

 

I don't think they turned down a single request for an interview. Amazon really knows how to leverage social media.

[Critiaslux]

 

 

I don't think they turned down a single request for an interview. Amazon really knows how to leverage social media.

 

Well their core business being now data analytics and algorithms, at least they do their job properly 😄

[scielle]

 

Also, there's a mini Irene interview on this IG (seriously, who do they have her talking to?!)

 

Rachel Smith Vegas

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8sz8j9v2UZ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

A longer version of this mini-interview from IG: