CANNES: Cannes’ punishing whirlwind of parties and premieres has been the downfall of many a screen idol.
But a seventy something press photographer became an unwitting star of the film festival Saturday after he fell asleep in the front row of a photocall.
To gales of laughter from the dozens of photographers lined up behind him, British director Ken Loach had to gently wake paparazzo Steve Wood so he wouldn’t miss his shot.
Loach is in the running for his second Palme d’Or for his film “I, Daniel Blake” which had some critics in tears.
It took the veteran director a few moments to wake Wood — who has spent five decades snapping celebrities and top models — at the film’s photocall on Friday.
“I am one of these people who can nap anywhere. I was in a dead to the world,” Wood told AFP.
“I was so asleep I didn’t know what he was saying at first,” added the English photographer, who said he was in his “mid seventies.”
But a seventy something press photographer became an unwitting star of the film festival Saturday after he fell asleep in the front row of a photocall.
To gales of laughter from the dozens of photographers lined up behind him, British director Ken Loach had to gently wake paparazzo Steve Wood so he wouldn’t miss his shot.
Loach is in the running for his second Palme d’Or for his film “I, Daniel Blake” which had some critics in tears.
It took the veteran director a few moments to wake Wood — who has spent five decades snapping celebrities and top models — at the film’s photocall on Friday.
“I am one of these people who can nap anywhere. I was in a dead to the world,” Wood told AFP.
“I was so asleep I didn’t know what he was saying at first,” added the English photographer, who said he was in his “mid seventies.”
