It's weird to think about Skam, were Julie wanted the youth to come together and discuss the show and the characters actions, while Julie herself never interacted with the audience and the actors were protected from the spotlight, not allowed to do interviews etc
Vs Skam france were the director and others from the french team can't seem to not interfere with fans' reactions and practically tell them how to feel, give likes to posts who only praise them and block people who don't..
The actors (at least some of them ahem..) is being heavily used in promoting the show and there's a lot of interviews, bts footage etc but it also seems like there's a lot of 'special treatment' going on here...or maybe it's just Tumblr that focuses 90% on a couple of the actors while in reality the others are giving the same exposure or treatment? I hope so bc if not it's pretty telling..
I've been very critical on everything above from the very beginning of skamfr s3 bc I've always felt that the characters and the show should be able to speak for itself? And also it should be okey for people to react spontaneously on what they see and also let them proceed that information and discuss it, without being told from adults making the show how they should feel? Bc people have different upbringing, different experiences and different perspectives and therefor they will see things differently - and that should be okey?
Isak's words 'only you can feel what you feel' is so important and I feel Julie always respected her young audience no matter what the reactions from them were. I guess I wish the french team would've done the same, that's all.