As she will soon be starring in the film The young lovers by Carine Tardieu, Fanny Ardant gave an interview to Gala, to discover in our new issue, on newsstands this Thursday, January 27. The actress has agreed to talk about her relationship to the body and its complexes.
Despite appearances, some actresses maintain a complex relationship with their body. If Virginie Efira let it be known that she was extremely modest in the city, Fanny Ardant agreed to discuss his relationship to the body and nudity, during an interview granted to Gala, to discover this Thursday, January 27 on newsstands. The 72-year-old actress, who will star in the film The young lovers of Carine Tardieu on February 2, explained why she had never been naked in front of a camera : “I have never shown myself naked on screen. It’s a personal thing, I’m not passing judgment, but if for some the relationship to the body is clear and net, for me it is much less“, she explained, before evoking her complexes: “I do not love myself. I don’t like my body“, she confided.
And to continue:Filmed total nudity is too realistic. Suddenly, we consider the body of the other. It is no longer the body of the character, it is that of the actress.” Modest, she is on film sets, but also in everyday life. “I’m like entangled. When I was young and I went dancing, boys came to invite me, and when I unfolded – I was very tall for my generation – they said to themselves: ‘Oh, what a beard!’“, remembered the one who never married. A size complex, which she never managed to get rid of: “So I would have liked to be uninhibited, but I remained in a labyrinth“, admitted the actress.
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Which mother is Fanny Ardant?
In the columns of Gala, Fanny Ardant has also confided in her role as a mother. As a reminder, the actress discovered the joys of motherhood for the first time in 1975, with the birth of Illuminate, born of his idyll with the actor Dominique Leverd. His second daughter, Josephine, born in 1983, is the fruit of her past history with director François Truffaut. The father of her third daughter, Baladine, born in 1989, is the photographer Fabio Conversi. The one who had three daughters with three different men was never a “mother-friend” : “I may be old school but the mother must remain the mother“, estimated the ex of François Truffaut. “In contrast, their warmth and the excessive affection I have for them undoubtedly protected me (…) You protect a child, but a child protects you. In an ‘animalistic’ way”, explained the one who put “a downside to one’s own life” to protect them. And to observe: “As soon as I had children, I cared about them, I became more reasonable.”
Our interview with Fanny Ardant can be read in full in the new issue of GALA, on newsstands this Thursday, January 27 or available by clicking here. You can also receive GALA at your home every Thursday by taking advantage of a NO COMMITMENT subscription offer !
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