Apple TV’s Drops of God has been a dramatic and cultural phenomenon since its Season 1 debut in 2023. The first multinational adaptation of the insanely popular manga series, Kami no Shizuku, it opened the doors to the intensely sensual world of wine with captivating characters and an immersive narrative.
Star Fleur Geffrier credits the series with launching her acting career. As Camille Léger, the daughter of the late wine critic and oenologist Alexandre Léger, she navigates the personal trauma of her childhood in Drops of God Season 1 to emerge with a new focus and family.
Speaking exclusively with The Televixen from France, Geffrier dives into the layers of character development that Season 2 exposes through Camille’s choices and decisions.
Camille has had an immense journey from when we first met her at the beginning of Drops of God Season 1. Can you speak to the overall change in her character as well as the specific choices she has made in Season 2?
That’s something, right? So, in the first season, she’s very lost. And then she discovered her past, and she discovers wine. She realizes she had big trauma and it was not her fault. She feels way better at the end of the first season than at the beginning because she won the big prize.
And so, in the second season, she’s having her life, working a lot. She’s with her boyfriend, and she thinks everything is happy, but she forgets something. She forgets that if you put your trauma under the carpet, it will never get solved. That’s what’s happening to her in the second season.
She thinks she’s doing things for other people. She thinks she’s an altruist, not selfish, but she’s wrong. And what we think is going to happen at the beginning of the second season is really the opposite, [in terms of things] between Issei and her.
She needs her brother. And then she goes way deep in herself. She needs to do that because she needs to go further and grow up somehow, get rid of her chains, her dad’s chains.
The spectre of Alexandre is more present in Season 2 in Camille’s imagination and memories, affecting her. Do you think she is, at times, somewhat channelling his life choices?
She won’t accept that. Everything that is related to her dad is a no-go. “No, don’t talk to me about him: I’m not him! I hate him! I don’t want him in my life. I’m not doing things because of him!” But maybe she’s a bit wrong, and she needs to realize that he’s more present than she thinks. That will help her to get better, I hope.
One of the things that Alexandre did in his life was put wine above people. Does Camille do the same?
Yeah, I think she does. Totally. The thing is with her is that she thinks she’s doing that for… for the wine, but for the people, too. For humanity. She’s like, “We have to do something! It’s too big, bigger than us! Bigger than this family!” But she’s wrong again. [laughs]
She’s not totally wrong. She’s right, but she’s not doing it properly or in a good way.
In Season 2, Camille and Issei meet another brother-sister pair. Are Camille’s choices and actions motivated by the dissonance between those siblings?
Yeah, she wants to put them back together. She wants to reunite this family because she sees her own family is broken. I think she really wants her brother to be more present in her life. That’s why at the beginning of Season 2, she’s always behind him, [asking], “Do you love me? Do you?” And he’s like, “Leave me alone. Too much.” That’s what I feel about my character.
So when she’s confronted with this family, she wants to help them. She puts her nose in their business — that’s not her business — and goes a bit too deep.
Does Camille find balance, peace, or healing by the end of Season 2?
A sort. Sure, the last scene for me tells everything. It’s very moving. We could think of her being back at the first steps of the beginning of the first season, but that’s not true. That’s not true at all. Many things moved in her life very quickly. But what’s happening in the very last scene, that’s what she needed very much.
The Season 2 finale of Apple TV’s Drops of God streams on March 11.
