Charlotte Gainsbourg is back on television, in season 2 of the excellent series In Therapy. If she had remained living in the United States, the 50-year-old actress might not have obtained this recurring role, thanks to which she gives the reply to Frédéric Pierrot. It is a double relief, therefore, to know that the artist is among us. But his jaunt to America, of course, was not in vain. She was fleeing in this way, after all, the pangs of notoriety and the sadness of the mourning of her sister, the photographer Kate Barry, who died at the age of 46 after falling from the fourth floor.
Living in the big apple, Charlotte Gainsbourg learned to see things differently. She also had time to think about big projects… in particular what to do with the famous private apartment of Serge Gainsbourg, located at 5 bis rue de Verneuil, in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. “In New York, I also understood that I had to settle the question of my father’s house: either sell it or open a museum, she explains in the columns of TVMagazine. It’s a gesture towards the public, but also for my children: if I slam tomorrow, they won’t have to ask themselves the question!“
This is the option “Museum“In the end, who won the victory. Charlotte Gainsbourg, who has been discussing this idea for years, hopes to be able to open the doors of this strange residence in the spring or at the start of the school year in September. “Initially, I will try to offer what I know of myself, the house in which he lived, but from my point of view as a little girl and a teenagerspecifies the companion of Yvan Attal. This vision will then evolve… The visit will last only thirty minutes because it can only be in small groups. I would like people to choose what suits them best, with its music or in silence. And I would like that, later, my mother, Bambou and others participate, lend their voice to tell memories…“
Bambou was in a relationship with Serge Gainsbourg in the 1980s, after meeting him at the Elysée Montmartre. Mother of her son Lucien, known as Lulu, born in 1986, she certainly has some great anecdotes to add to the visit.
Find the full interview with Charlotte Gainsbourg in TV Magazine of April 3, 2022.