In his next film A roll of the dice, Yvan Attal finds Guillaume Canet, who has become his friend. During a cross-interview for Madame Figaro, published Friday January 19, 2024, the two men spoke about their careers, their complicity but also their respective couples with Charlotte Gainsbourg and Marion Cotillard. The opportunity for the director to My wife is an actress to evoke the celebrity of his partner, whom he has directed several times in his films. If the French public clearly identifies the 59-year-old director, the daughter of Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg enjoys a considerable aura around the world. “When I’m at the hotel and a guy says to me, ‘Hello Mr. Gainsbourg,’ I want to murder!” he revealed to our colleagues. A response to the words of Guillaume Canet, who staged his love story with Marion Cotillard in his film Rock’n’Roll. “I heard so much bullshit that I wanted to re-appropriate this story, to laugh with the public about what he was projecting of us: Marion who lives in Los Angeles, the marketer who calls me Monsieur Cotillard… “
Yvan Attal returns to the raw scenes of a famous film with Charlotte Gainsbourg
By their own admission, it is not easy for Yvan Attal and Guillaume Canet, both in a relationship with an actress, to see love scenes on screen. “Yvan and I have so much in common that we immediately found each other. It was long before I knew you: but I loved My wife is an actress. The cinema scene where he sinks into his chair because his wife is performing an intimate scene with an actor, I experienced it in my flesh!”, recognized the companion of Marion Cotillard, whose life he has shared since the 2000s. “You know that when I wrote this scene, I hadn’t yet experienced it. And then there was the screening of Antichrist in Cannes… Imagine me, in my too-tight shirt, with Charlotte who masturbates on the big screen”, reacted the spouse of Charlotte Gainsbourg, in reference to this ultra-sulphurous film where the actress plays several very crude scenes, which earned him a ban on under-18s. “The sex scenes were very easy to shoot because, for me, the immodesty wasn’t there. I just told Lars that I was embarrassed to show my breasts. My butt, no.”had confided the person concerned to Parisian at the time, June 3, 2009.