The understanding was not always there) the meeting between Charlotte Gainsbourg and her two sisters. In the columns of the January edition of Psychology magazine, the 50-year-old actress has long envied the fusional relationship of her mother Jane Birkin with her half-sisters.
“I’m the one in the middle, it’s a complicated place”. Throughout her youth, Charlotte Gainsbourg tried to find a place alongside her big sister Kate Barry and younger sister Lou Doillon. If they have often displayed a beautiful complicity in front of the photographers, this has not always been the case at home. In the columns of the January edition of the magazine Psychology, the 50-year-old actress has long envied the fusional relationship of his mother Jane Birkin with her half-sisters. “Me, I saw especially that with my sisters, Lou and Kate, they were on the contrary very accomplicesremembers Charlotte Gainsbourg. I built myself with jealousy, I needed to verify that we were being treated fairly. So it’s true that there were a lot of misunderstandings between us… “, she admits with a touch of bitterness.
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“Very secret” and “intimidated” by his mother, Charlotte Gainsbourg was unable to immediately create a link with the latter too scared “to do wrong” with her second daughter. Not finding her place in this feminine trio, Serge Gainsbourg’s daughter very quickly “far from the family circle” and started her acting career very early. Since then, a form of modesty has settled in the family. Despite a few kisses “Russian way”, mother and daughter never told each other that they loved each other. It is therefore with great restraint that Yvan Attal’s wife decided today to do so through “media, a song, a script” or his film “Jane by Charlotte”. “With a microphone, (…), I finally dared to tell him that I loved him. I needed her to hear it “, concludes Charlotte Gainsbourg with emotion.
Charlotte Gainsbourg: inconsolable since the death of her sister Kate
If rivalries have long been present between the three sisters, these have been able to forge tender links over the years. Very close to her big sister Kate Barry, Charlotte Gainsbourg was deeply marked by her death on December 11, 2013. A pain on which she confided in a long interview given to the magazine Vogue. “When I lost my sister, I had already started working on the album and there was a kind of evidence: I couldn’t write about anything else. Everything revolved around her now. It crystallized writing, it made it possible. I hope I didn’t use her, that I didn’t use my pain, but that’s what allowed me to write “.
Back in France, after having spent a few years in New York to clear her mind, Charlotte Gainsbourg can count on the presence of his little sister Lou. After somewhat conflicting beginnings between the two sisters, the mother of Marlowe Jack Tiger Mitchell has a sincere admiration for her big sister. In an interview with the magazine She, in December 2020, Lou Doillon revealed to take pleasure in “draw Charlotte’s hands, which fascinate her”. And today, the sisters are like the fingers of the hand.
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