On the occasion of the release of the film My France To Me on December 20, 2023, Fanny Ardant confided in a interview granted to Madame Figaro Thursday December 14, 2023 on a universal subject: that of old age and the passing of time. It is with great serenity that the 74 year old actress gets old. However, by the time she was 15, she was terrified of growing old: “I remember being haunted for months by this feeling of mai più, never more, never again. […] I felt paralyzed.” Once she understood that old age was “inevitable”she changed her state of mind: “You have to embrace the wave, and call yourself mektoub!“ If the French director does not want to let herself be overcome by the idea of death and old age, she above all wants to choose how she will face this stage of life: “On the other hand, it’s me who decides when and how.”
Fanny Ardant: “I want to live my old age with intelligence and dignity”
Faced with the passage of time, Fanny Ardant explains how she wants to age: “I want to live my old age with intelligence and dignity, because I hate the idea of feeling like a victim“. The one who won the César for best actress in 1997 for Soft pedal also wishes to fight the diktats imposed by society: “I always thought that society was very dangerous: we were always told that it was there to prevent us from ending up in the wild. But if it is to transform us into robots who follow diktats […]We are lost !” The great actress therefore explained how she faces the passage of time: “I always told myself that old age had to be prepared for. […] So, this is how I imagine myself growing old, repeating gestures full of meaning: like eating the same plate of spaghetti every day. […] Go to the cinema every afternoon and end the day with a book.” Even though Fanny Ardant is getting older, she hopes to return to the theater to play a “great character”. In the meantime, you can also find her alongside Mathieu Kassovitz in The Kings of the track on March 27, 2024.