she confides in the drama experienced during the filming of Simone

This Wednesday, October 12, the new film by Olivier Dahan will be released in cinemas – Simone, the trip of the century -, a biopic devoted to Simone Veil. If the first criticisms are divided about this new reading of the life of the former minister who left us 5 years ago, the director can count on Elsa Zylberstein to defend him.

It is she who embodies Simone Veil on the big screen, and she multiplies the appearances in the press and on television to discuss her filming and highlight the painful journey of the one to whom we owe the decriminalization of abortion. Elsa Zylberstein has notably been seen on the set of It’s up to you (France 5) last week and took the opportunity to draw parallels between his own personal story and that of Simone Veil. The actress evoked that day the overwhelming journey of her father and that of her grandparents.

Today it’s another drama that happened on the set of Simone, the trip of the century that she wanted to tell Gala. “I am proud because I fought for this film to be made, I put a lot of energy into it and Olivier made a magnificent film” she first reported to our colleagues, before recalling that this adventure had been beneficial to her: “She helped me to live, I tried to feel her as accurately and as deeply as possible. It’s a great honor and a dream that has come true!”.

Elsa Zylberstein affected by the death of her mother

Then Elsa Zylberstein talked about the death of his mother Liliane Chenard, of whom little is known except that she worked at Dior Parfums. The actress learned it while she was in the middle of filming. “The worst moment of my life hit the greatest gift of my life” she said about it. For her, there are also similarities between this brutal death and the life of Simone Veil. “With Olivier Dahan, we also wanted to show the woman broken by death: the death of Milou, her beloved sister, and that of her mother, central in the film” she explained to our colleagues, before concluding that we were not recovering “never from the death of his mother”.

Visibly more fulfilled than ever, the 53-year-old actress approaches life calmly despite this disappearance. After having had several relationships with Arnaud Montebourg or Yann Moix, Elsa Zylberstein today shares love with a man whose identity she keeps secret. “She is now in a relationship, even if it is each at home. And if she has not yet had a child, she sometimes thinks of adopting” recently reported Release on this point.