Her character of Bernadette Chirac, which she will play on the big screen from October 4, 2023, undoubtedly has something in common with her. Indeed, Catherine Deneuve, like the wife of the former French president, tried to take care of your image in the press. A path strewn with pitfalls for the star of Umbrellas of Cherbourgwho does not hesitate to affirm in the columns of Paris Matchthis Wednesday, September 20, 2023, thatshe has one “poor” opinion of journalists. She says in particular that she had to face media pressure at a very young age and thus learned to quickly protect herself from it. “I have always tried to defend myself against injustice, exaggeration, and the lies of the media,” she exclaims. “There are journalists that I admire, but I note that, even in certain newspapers that I like, there is a tendency to go towards ease which is a weakness.” And if her disenchantment with the media is real, it is the same for certain journalists who were confronted with her in interviews. Swiss journalist Darius Rochebin (who now works on LCIeditor’s note), who interviewed him during the promotion of one of his films at the RTShad even affirmed thatshe had been “disgusting from start to finish”. The actress was not happy with the questions according to him, and did not hesitate to let him know.
“I would have thrown a glass of water in his face.”
And yet, it was not this journalist who had the greatest impact on the woman who embodied Donkey Skin in 1970. In the summer of 2020, the newspaper The world dedicate a series of six articles to Catherine Deneuve. The great reporter Raphaëlle Bacqué, known in particular for her biographies on Jacques Chirac, Karl Lagarfeld and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is producing the series in question. All this without an interview with the actress, who canceled the interview an hour before. Her cinema friendships, her family, her relationship to money or feminism: the icon is exposed. And that doesn’t please the main person concerned at all. “I was worse than dissatisfied, I was shocked more than angry (…) I did not react quickly enough for a right of reply. If I had met the journalist, I would have thrown a glass of water in her face“relays Tele-Leisure on September 21, 2023. Rare fact: even before publication, the writing of the World received a formal notice from the actress, concerning the revelations about her private life, in particular. “A star is first and foremost someone who organizes their inaccessibility”, one of her friends said to the journalist from World. It appears that the assertion is verified.