En 1996, moved to tears, Annie Girardot marked the César ceremony with a moving speech. After crossing the desert, she is back and won the César for best actress for a supporting role in Wretched by Claude Lelouch. “I don’t know if I missed French cinema, but, for me, French cinema missed madly, madly, painfully. In 2004, the actress spoke at length about her life on Thierry Ardisson’s show Everybody talks about it – available on the INA ArdiTube channel.
Beyond her professional, chaotic and turbulent career, the actress recounts her love stories at length. The first is with Renato Salvatori, the actor she meets on the set of the mythical Rocco and his brothers. “He branded me with a hot iron of passion,” explains Annie Girardot. He’s my man, my body felt him before me. Passion is not easy. “He was an animal, someone who could be very violent. “Between filming and life at a distance, life together is complicated. Girardot goes to Rome and waits for her husband, a poker fanatic. “Rome is very nice, but when he’s not there, you get bored. There are only the bells. I just wanted to get out. I returned to Paris. You know the “dolce vita””, she points out. The couple separated quite quickly.
Platonic love with Louis de Funès
Annie Girardot lived a passion with Jacques Brel. “His words marked my life before marking my body. Jacques was not handsome, but he had charm. There is something that attracted me, ”she says, still moved by this story that will not last – and will only be known by a few insiders. Finally, the actress die from love, who died in 2011, evokes her platonic love with Louis de Funès, which did not prevent the wife of the most famous of the gendarmes from being jealous and threatening Annie Girardot. Confidences without wooden language. She doesn’t drink, she doesn’t smoke, she doesn’t flirt, but… she talks.
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