“It’s so wonderful,” the actress paints the virtues of celibacy

After a very busy year 2023 with film releases Alibi.com 2 by Philippe Lacheau, Zodi and Tehu, brothers of the desert by Éric Barbier, and The room of wonders by Lisa Azuelos, in which she distinguished herself, Alexandra Lamy is back in theaters this month. She agreed to take on the role of Carole for the new feature film by Édouard Bergeron – The green promise – to be discovered from March 27, the day of the also highly anticipated release of the biography of the Kretz family. The actress aged 52 years plays the role of a mother ready to do anything to save her son unjustly sentenced to death in Indonesia. She is waging a fight against powerful industrialists involved in deforestation.

Herself the mother of a daughter who is now an adult – Chloé Jouannet – and the fruit of her love with Thomas Jouannet, before she met Jean Dujardin, Alexandra Lamy is today Single. The heroine of Everyone standing says she is particularly serene at the idea of ​​growing old alone, as she confided to Léa Salamé at the microphone of France Inter on Monday March 18, as part of the promotion of the film The green promise.

Alexandra Lamy accepts being single

Faced with the journalist, Audrey Lamy’s big sister was delighted with her lifestyle and showed no complexes. “I’m single and it’s so great. We do what we want.”she first said, before deploring that we had “always need to stick with someone in life”. Alexandra Lamy, she doesn’t have any “do not want anymore”. “I made them gratins dauphinois, eggplant, the pediatrician… I want to take advantage of myself”, she then insisted. However, she does not draw a definitive line on love; but she believes that “it’s good to be able to embrace being single”. “I think of myself and I’m good like that. A few years ago we were ashamed. Now we say to ourselves that we have the right”she assured, without adding anything more.

Alexandra Lamy does not fear the passage of time. At least, that’s what she told the host-star of France 2 during this interview. “Obviously in old age we say to ourselves, ‘Oh my, damn,’ when we start to see ourselves tired. But I always say to myself, in fact, we’re lucky to get old”she said, revealing that she had lost friends “so young” and who would nevertheless have “loved growing old”. “And so every day I tell myself that I’m lucky to be getting old“she said.

Alexandra Lamy not about to retire

Léa Salamé then asked what a woman’s body was like once she was over 50. To which the actress responded by recalling the importance of maintaining it to stay in shape. “That’s why I would tell young people to continue doing sport, because at 50, the body will change”she finally clarified.

She had already made reference to her age by relating it to her career on France 2, on the set of 20 Heures presented by Laurent Delahousse, last week. She confided that she couldn’t see herself stopping filming, having made around thirty films to her credit since the end of the 1990s. “If I don’t do this job, I die. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to stop doing this job.. If I stop, it would be terrible. Intellectually, it would be terrible to stop.”she suggested, without procrastinating.

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