She is currently playing, at the theater, of the biographical play Clara Haskil: prelude and fugue. But spectators also find Laetitia Casta at the cinema in the ecological fable The crusade, since December 22, 2021, comedy signed by her husband Louis Garrel. Before being able to collaborate in a harmonious way, the lovers, however, had to go through a period of adaptation … sometimes stormy.
Laetitia Casta shot for Louis Garrel, for the first time, in 2018. In a relationship with the director for three years, she thought long and hard before accepting this role. “At the beginning I did not want, out of modesty, she remembers in the columns of the magazine Telerama. I was afraid that this intimacy, even disguised by fiction, would endanger our relationship. Whatever people say, life is more important than the movies. I ended up accepting because I risked missing something that was close to his heart. But on The Faithful Man, where I played a calculating Marianne, both cold and wise like the owl of the Greek goddess Athena, he was tough.“
Once I got angry, I yelled, “Let me play!”
Used to being manhandled by filmmakers, as she had been on the set ofAsterix and Obelix against Caesar, Laetitia Casta perhaps expected to find a little sweetness in her partner, professionally speaking. “He had to make a point of showing the team that I was not getting special treatment, adds the mother of Sahteene, Orlando, Athena and Azel. Suddenly, he suffocated me. Once I got upset, I yelled, ‘Let me play!’ On The crusade, he trusted me more … Louis nevertheless arrived one day saying to me ‘My love’ in front of everyone. I stopped him right away: ‘No, your love stayed at home’. So it’s a special situation, but very rewarding, because we create something strong together. Beside, the other projects suddenly seem bland.“The main thing is that they managed to find a balance. And that the fruit of their effort be available, on the big screen, for our greatest pleasure …
Find the interview with Laetitia Casta in the Télérama magazine, n ° 3756 of January 5, 2022.