The wife of ex-footballer Éric Cantona who appears in the casting of the series Le colossus au pied d’argile tells how they met and talks about a love passion they have shared for more than 20 years.
The former footballer Eric Cantona continues an acting career started in 1995 with brilliance, he made an appearance in the TV movie The colossus with the foot of clay broadcast on TF1 on Thursday May 4. In it, he plays the ex-rugby player Sébastien Boueilh, victim of the rape of a member of his family for several years. A difficult role to play, but Éric Cantona, who is also starring inaka on Netflix had already demonstrated its talents in the past, in particular in The Overeater by Thierry Binisti, in 2002. It was on the set of this film that he met his wife, actress Rachida Brakni, who had just received the César for Best Female Hope for her performance in Chaos.
For magazine SheRachida Brakni remembered this encounter in 2015, which she describes as “Blast“evoking between the lines a real love at first sight. “Eric was in front of a mirror, getting his makeup done. I didn’t see his eyes directly, I saw him in the mirror. And he also saw me in the mirror” she had said.
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Eric Cantona and Rachida Brakni have their own business in Sardinia
At this moment, “Something happened” for the actress and the one she later married five years later. For Paris Matchshe also specified that she had “was caught up in his gaze in the mirror”then affirmed that their meeting owed nothing to the “chance” For Madame Figaroin 2019. “We often say to ourselves thatwe will end up together, so old that we may only have one tooth between us, if not toothless! In truth, I can’t imagine any other man than Eric“ she also said for Shegoing so far as to declare that if there was another person after her husband, it would be “a woman”.
Éric Cantona and Rachida Brakni both continued to pursue their careers, without exposing their private lives too much outside of film sets and red carpets. They had two children: a boy named Emir in 2009, and a girl named Selma in 2013. “I take my children to school and pick them up or my wife does, or we go together. It’s going well” revealed for his part the ex-footballer at Parisian during a rare confidence, speaking of a “family life like everyone else”.
Multiplying their activities, they took refuge in Portugal and also have a base in Sardiniawhere they have their own business related to the cultivation of vegetables and plants. “A few years ago, we bought a shed with quite a few hectares, olive trees, fruit trees, orange blossoms, plants – including wild mint, eucalyptus, thyme…” had they also revealed to Madame Figaroexplaining that this company called Nostra had become their “third baby”.
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