Charlotte Gainsbourg, her complicated relationship with notoriety: “I don’t see it very well…”

Charlotte Gainsbourg was able to draw on her own experience to work on the character of Claire, the referent shrink whom she plays in season 2 of the series In Therapy, with Frédéric Pierrot. Since she was 18, the artist has been using psychoanalysis: a long path, far from being peaceful, which does not quite resemble that of the fiction by Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache and Laetitia Gonzalez… but which was very useful to him.

It’s no secret, Charlotte Gainsbourg has experienced many dramas in his life. That explains why she ended up going to a cabinet. “A succession of difficulties, heartache, the death of my very young fathershe summarizes in the columns of TVMagazine. A life course a bit like everyone else, but I wasn’t doing very well. I was lucky to have an incredible shrink! It was more support than work on myself. I have never done an analysis.

It’s no coincidence that I went to New York

Being part of one of the most powerful clans in our heritage does not only have advantages. All French people know the different branches of her family tree and follow the evolution of Charlotte Gainsbourg, like that of Lou Doillon, Jane Birkin or Lulu Gainsbourg. “I don’t see it very well but I get used to itshe assures. It’s no coincidence that I went to New York for six years. My sister had just died. I couldn’t do it anymore… It was the only solution for me. I discovered there what it was like to live in anonymity, to have a normal relationship with others..”

My dad was right…

Known very early, in particular by collaborating with Serge Gainsbourg, Charlotte wanted to flee the different aspects of celebrity. Today, she appreciates her contours more, while maintaining a certain distance with her audience. “Once, when I was younger, I was sulking because someone had asked me for an autograph and my father said to me very seriously: ‘You’ll see, the day when it won’t happen to you anymores, you will regret it !‘, she recalls. He was right, it is a great pleasure to be recognized, appreciated. But always having to talk about my parents, being polite, smiling, out of respect for the love people have for them, it’s complicated...

Find the full interview with Charlotte Gainsbourg in TVMagazine of April 3, 2022.

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