The praise has multiplied since the death of Jane Birkin, which occurred on July 16, 2023. After the President of the Republic, it is the turn of Josiane Balasko to pay tribute to his former acolyte of the theater.
The death of Jane Birkin at the age of 76 years old was announced this Sunday, July 16, prompting numerous reactions from anonymous people and personalities, including the President of the Republic, who recognized in her a free womanand other artists such as Alain Chamfort and Françoise Hardy who had texted him a few hours before hearing the bad news. Josiane Balasko agreed to speak in turn. guest of BFM-TVthe actress wished to pay homage to him by not drying up of praises on his subject.
Among our colleagues, Rudy’s adoptive mother felt that Jane Birkin represented “there tenderness and the kindness“. For her, “He was an extremely kind person”. Josiane Balasko also admitted that she “knew her sick”having had to face two cancers and affected by a stroke in 2021. “I thought she was better. You told me about her disappearance and it’s the sweetness that disappears in a world of brutes“ she added.
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Josiane Balasko and Janie Birkin had collaborated in the theater
The last public appearance of Jane Birkin dates back to February, on the occasion of the 48th Cesar ceremony in which she had participated with her daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg. In the process, other health problems had forced her to cancel several concerts planned for this year. The singer famous for her hits “I love you…me neither” And “Ex-fan of the sixties” written by his companion at the time Serge Gainsbourg was also an accomplished actressnominated several times for the Césars as well as at the Molières ceremony, and with no less than 70 film appearances between the 1960s and 2016. Seen in several TV movies, she also walked the stage in theaters from 1985.
It is moreover for his piece The ex-wife of my life that Josiane Balasko had solicited Jane Birkin, in the same way as Thierry Lhermitte (1988). “She always had this lightness and humility. She was the first to laugh at herself. She had crazy stage fright at the theater and at the same time, she was beautifulwonderful on stage, she was also an actress, not a singer” made a point of underlining Josiane Balasko by remembering their collaboration, admitting that she did not see her “not a lot” but that she nevertheless felt “close to her”.
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