Faustine Bollaert: this amazing role she plays with her husband, Maxime Chattam

It was in 2010 that Faustine Bollaert and Maxime Chattam met on the show And if that was happiness, on Europe 1. Since then, between the two, love is always there. Two years later, the two lovebirds get married and expand their family with Abbie, 10 years old and Peter, 8 years old. successful writer, Maxime Chatham specializes in writing very dark novels, which can sometimes frighten his wife. Invited on Sunday, April 9, 2023 in the program C-media, the moderator entrusted, however, to advise her husband when he writes. “Wouldn’t it really be the luxury of a writer’s wife to be able to give her opinion?”, she asked.

Faustine Bollaert then launches: “I can tell you that when he withdraws a sentence because I tell him ‘I don’t like’, I am very proud”. She even adds her paw on some “love scenes. Because he writes very dark thrillers, and when there are two heroes who end up making love, I tell him: ‘Well, you can’t make them make love in half a page while you explained an autopsy, six chapters, further in eighteen pages.’ So I often try to humanize his characters a bit. And it’s funny because we talk about it a lot, he tells me himself that his books are much more focused on the human, the emotions of his heroines, it’s important for him. We have a real conversation. I think his books are more psychology-oriented than before.”

Faustine Bollaert: her confidences without filter on her daily life with Maxime Chattam

Nevertheless, Faustine Bollaert wonders how her husband can have so much inspiration on very dark scenes. “I find it hard to imagine sometimes that it is the adorable, tender man, that I know, who can write such horrors. Above all, how he can come down from his office after writing this, and find us to come eat nuggets with the children”.