During an interview with Paris Match, Francis Huster opened up about the romantic relationships he shared with other actresses, in competition with his passion. Confessions.
From the height of his 75 years, Francis Huster doesn’t seem close to retiring. The actor seen in Patrick Dewaere, my hero by Alexandre Moix last year will play Colonel Mustard in a new adaptation of Cluedo expected in dark rooms in 2023. Also president of the jury of the last Miss France election in December, he does not seem to lack projects… He does not seem to lack love either to read his last interview granted To Paris Match, whose front page of the new issue made Muriel Robin react. For the magazine, Francis Huster who is currently playing at the Théâtre des Nouveaux (Paris) in the play The pigeons with Michel Leeb confided in the subject of his sentimental relations. “I fell in love with so many actresses“ he remembered.
During this interview, he underlined that all these women with whom he had played or even lived had allowed him to take a “crazy confidence”citing in particular Nina Companeez, Fanny Ardant, Ludmila Mikaël, Isabelle Nanty and of course Isabelle Adjani, with whom he lived a romance in the 70s. Thereafter, Francis Huster got into a relationship with Nina Companeez, then with Cristiana Reali between 1991 and 2008, with whom he had his two daughters Elisa And Tuscany. But all came up against another priority: his career. “They were in competition with this passion. I came home at 2am, I worked at night, I went on tour, filming. When I played with them, it was happiness. But when we were apart, the breakup was inevitable” he confided, before concluding: “Movies, plays, I always fell in love with a partner“.
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Francis Huster dad-buddy with his two daughters
For Paris MatchFrancis Huster also spoke about the relationship he has with his daughters Élisa and Toscane, born respectively in 1998 and 2003, and with whom the resemblance is striking. “I never had a father-daughter relationship. At each stage of their life, I was the same age as them. I am a father-friend“ he said, when he had very rarely mentioned fatherhood so far. However, it is good “In admiration” in front of them. “My daughters did not follow in my footsteps. Toscane is a visual artist and Elisa is a scientist. And me, I want them to be happy“ he actually insisted on pointing out.
He therefore failed to transmit his comedy virus to them, he who has the feeling of climbing “an Everest” every time he plays. “I always felt missioned, so I put a hellish pressure on myself. I feel like so much is expected of me that I have to be 200%” he was willing to admit.