The silence of his late father had become unbearable. Thursday July 2, 2020, Emmanuelle Béart was Anne-Sophie Lapix's guest in The Grand Chessboard broadcast on France 2. The 56-year-old actress came to defend the album Béart (s) realized in tribute to his father, Guy Béart, who died five years ago from a heart attack. A disappearance which the actress has mourned today … Indeed, the mother of three children exorcised the death of her father, whom she still refuses to call dad, with an album of covers. Alongside Carla Bruni, also guest on the show, Emmanuelle Béart explained what had pushed her to revive the "pearls" written by his father, despite a very complicated father / daughter relationship …
"I suffered from not hearing it anymore"
"For years, especially at the beginning when I started, I wanted to be anything but the daughter of Guy Béart, like many children of known parents ", entrusted the actress after a short slip tried "developer". "Today in the street people say to me: 'I adore your father, you are the daughter of Guy Béart', and that makes me very happy!" And for good reason, for years, the former companion of Daniel Auteuil had trouble emancipating himself from his father's name. However, five years after her death, Emmanuelle Béart decides to make an album of covers under the wise advice of Charles Aznavour.
"When he died, I told myself that I could not imagine, with my sister because it is a project that we did with my sister and my husband, it is a family project, I used to suffer from not seeing him in the tanks anymore, II was suffering from not hearing it anymore, that it was no longer audible, and I thought there were pearls to discover or rediscover ", she said in The Grand Echiquier. A final farewell that the actress had already mentioned in The Parisian last March by declaring this: "He didn't care that his name was remembered. But we decided to betray his word with love."
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