A film that gets people talking. Monday January 22, 2024, Natalie Portman was invited to the set of C to youon France 5. The opportunity for the actress to promote the film May Decemberby Todd Haynes, which is scheduled for release on Wednesday January 24, 2024. The feature film, freely inspired by the Mary Kay Letourneau affair, deal with the romantic relationship between a 13-year-old teenager and his 36-year-old teacher. On display: Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, Charles Melton, but also Corey Michael Smith, and Kelvin Han Yee. While he presented his film at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2023, the director compared it to the couple formed by Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte. Asked about the definition of the film’s title, Todd Haynes, 62, explained that this expression describes a couple with a large age difference. “In France, we call that a Macron”he declared, causing a few smiles in the room.
A nice meeting at the Élysée
Of course, Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine suggested rewatching this sequence. “Did you know the Macron couple and their age difference?”then asked the presenter of C to you to Natalie Portman. “Yes ! I was lucky enough recently to be able to dine at the Élysée. I met them, they are magnificent“, commented the American actress. For her part, Natalie Portman does not experience too big an age difference with her partner, four years her senior. For more than a decade now, she has shared her daily life with Benjamin Millepied. The American star seen in many films like Leon, Your Majesty or Thor, has never hidden his relationship with the dancer. And this love at first sight was made possible thanks to the film Black Swanwho was the choreographer! They then got married on August 4, 2012 in California. And from this union two children were born. In June 2015, they became the happy parents of a little boy, Aleph, then of a little girl, Amalia, in February 2017. At the beginning of August 2023, Benjamin Millepied was accused in the press of having cheated on his wife with environmental activist Camille Etienne, aged 25. A rumor that did not get the better of the couple!