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Film director about Medina: 'I was in doubt whether it was good for her to be with' | BT Film, TV and Streaming - www.bt.dk In a room full of crystals and a ‘special energy’, two women sit opposite each other. There are no words. No touch. Just glances. For seven minutes they stare into each other's eyes. Then Medina collapses - dissolved in tears. "She was so fragile," remembers film director Kaspar Astrup Schröder, who stood in a corner and filmed the entire session. It is an extremely vulnerable side of Medina that Kaspar Astrup Schröder has been allowed to see. Press photo. The scene is not in the film 'Medina', which this week premiered in selected cinemas, but it is part of the series 'Medina', which can be streamed on Discovery + and Channel 5. Already on the very first day of filming, so the director Medina cried . That ‘generosity’ he rarely encounters with his protagonists, but it has also made him doubt his film project. »Medina is extremely sensitive. Especially at the beginning of the filming, I was in doubt as to whether it was good for her to be with. In the series, there is one who says, ‘Maybe she is too fragile for the job she has chosen,’ ”he says. For two and a half years, Kaspar Astrup Schröder has been following Medina with his camera. It has now become the film and TV series ‘Medina’. PR photo After 11 years as a pop star in the absolute top class, it was a mentally worn Medina that Kaspar Astrup Schröder met when he turned on his camera for the first time three years ago. She felt persecuted - by the gossip press, by two tenacious stalkers and by personal challenges, including with a little sister who. On their first day together, the film director noted, "Medina wants to be better, but doubts she can get better." He never shared his concern about the project with others, but 'just kept filming'. "There was just her, me, my camera and my time." Medina's only condition for shutting him into his life was that only he was allowed to follow her. "The space I have been in with her has been so intimate and closed that I could bear if the project died." stalkers and about problems with his mentally ill little sister. Pr-photo. When he first made contact and asked if he could make a film about her, the answer was: ‘I can not bear it’. "I know she has been worried about whether the film would pour petrol on the fire that she had actually put out," says Kaspar Astrup Schröder - especially about the pop star's relationship with the weekly magazines. But he hit her at a time when she herself had decided to make a difference: “She had made some choices: had stopped showing up on the red carpet, had become more holistic, and practiced saying, 'I is good enough 'and' There will always be someone who does not like me. '”Before a concert, Medina reveals a budding pregnancy. Unfortunately, she loses the baby shortly after. Press photo. And that process she agreed to follow. With his camera, he has been with Medina for both psychotherapy, healing and Body-SDS. He was one of the first to be told when she became pregnant and one of the only ones who knew she was having an abortion for her first child. It has been a very vulnerable Medina, he has been allowed to see: "She is extremely fragile and sensitive and is not always super rational in her way of dealing with her emotions - everything just goes right in." In January 2021, Medina gave birth to her first child, son Tyler. Now she is pregnant again. Press photo. Kaspar Astrup Schröder believes that Medina is far stronger today than when he met her on the first day of admission to the healer. He is no longer worried about whether she can tolerate the virak that the film creates around her. During the two and a half years he has followed her, there have been good changes especially in her private life. In 2020, she became pregnant - and gave birth to her son Tyler, and while the film premieres, she is again heavily pregnant. While filming, the film director has seen Medina find peace in her new life. "The film is her way of closing the book and embarking on a new chapter with husband and children and a happier Medina." SPORT EXPERT New tracks SPORT abroad B.T. in Ukraine Media berlingske abroad Berlingske Media A / S Pilestræde 34 DK-1147 Copenhagen KTlf. +45 33 75 75 33 CVR.no .: 29 20 73 13