By Marie-Louise Gumuchian
LONDON, Jan 19 (Reuters) – Award-winning drama “Drops of God”, based on the hit Japanese manga series, returns for a second season on Wednesday, with half-siblings Camille and Issei taking on a new wine challenge set by their late father.
The two characters, played by French actor Fleur Geffrier and Japanese singer and actor Tomohisa Yamashita, set off on a journey that will test their bond as they seek to uncover the origin of what is deemed the world’s greatest wine.
In an interview with Reuters, Geffrier and Yamashita, along with series sommelier Seb Pradal and executive producer Klaus Zimmermann, spoke about the Apple TV+ multilingual show’s new storyline, featured wines, and building cellars.
Q: What is the quest facing Camille and Issei this season?
Geffrier: “It’s like the quest, they don’t have a choice somehow. It arrives on the table: ‘You have to do that’. She doesn’t want to, he really wants to. The audience will understand… at the very beginning of the second season why Issei needs it and why she really doesn’t want it at all. But they will have to team up to go on this quest, and that will start building their relationship deeper.”
Q: How did you choose what wines to feature this season?
Pradal: “It’s wine, winemakers and wineries that I admire, of course. We try to work with wineries with a real ethic, considering ecology, for example. And of course, wines that would suit to the story itself; for example, tasting a Chateau d’Yquem with fancy people or these kind of things; we try to pick… a wine (suited) to the situation.”
Q: How has making the show changed your appreciation of wine?
Yamashita: “Before taking part… I didn’t have any interest in wine. After that, I fell in love with wine… (my) wine teacher… recommended (I) go to this specific restaurant and order this fish and order this bottle, you know, the marriage experience blew my mind. And… now I have a full, big cellar in my place.”
Q: What do you hope audiences will take away from season two?
Zimmermann: “I think the audience will even more understand how wine can be something broad… Going deep into Georgia and seeing how the wine was actually made eight thousand years ago is something which I think (most of) the audience will not know… And I think what I also want, from a story point of view, is to give… people the feeling that family might be the problem, but family can also be the solution.”
(Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by Jan Harvey)
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