He replied to Catherine Deneuve in Belle de Jour. To Brigitte Bardot in the legendary film by Jean-Luc Godard Contempt. More than once, he met Romy Schneider on the sets of Things of life, The Passage of Carefree or Max and the Scrappers. Throughout his career, Michel Piccoli responded to the legendary actresses of French and international cinema. If he had established good professional and friendly relations with them, the story took a completely different turn between him and the interpreter of Empress Sissi.
Passed away on May 12, 2020 at the age of 94, Michel Piccoli has never hidden his complicity with the actress. In his autobiography I lived in my dreams, written as an interview by Gilles Jacob (published in 2015 in the edition Brooch), we can read : "She and I had the weakness to indulge in not always very honest gestures. But it never destroyed, as they say, the friendship we had for each other ”.
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Michel Piccoli knew "that Romy was going to have this tragic fate "
The one he affectionately nicknamed "a schleue to make fun, was she more than just a friend and a playmate? In the story of his life, he responds to the many rumors about his relationship with Sarah Biasini's mother: “No, I have never been in love with Romy, but I knew her well".
Michel Piccoli even confides that he never had any doubts about the fate of the actress: “Sometimes people ask me if I suspected this tragic fate that Romy was going to have. I had no idea. Since I knew her, her life was a tragedy … On the one hand, she represented the splendid and happy woman. On the other hand, she always had this terrible pain that she carried with her ”.
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