How Do You Make a Movie About the Vatican? With Divine Intervention

Six years ago at the Cannes Film Festival, Tessa Ross, a renowned British producer known for her Academy Award-winning work on films like “12 Years a Slave”, “Slumdog Millionaire”, and “The Zone of Interest”, met with an up-and-coming German filmmaker named Edward Berger. Tessa had been captivated by Berger’s British historical miniseries, “Patrick Melrose”, and was eager to collaborate with him. She pitched several project ideas to him, but unfortunately none came to fruition.