In an interview with Madame Figaro, published on April 6, 2023, Vanessa Paradis looks back on her daughter’s career. The actress pulls out her claws in the face of criticism recently suffered by Lily-Rose Depp.
Vanessa Paradis is preparing to take to the stage at the Parisian theater Edouard VII to play in Mom, the play written by her husband Samuel Benchetrit. At the age of 50, the singer and actress launches into the theater. On the occasion of the promotion of the piece, she returned to the critics who targeted his daughter with our colleagues from Madame Figaro. In December 2022, the new york magazine produced a dossier on the “sons and daughters of“. This issue looked back on the careers of children of stars like Dakota Johnson (Fifty Shades of grey), daughter of Mélanie Griffith and Don Johnson and Maya Hawke (Once upon a time…In Hollywood), daughter of Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke.
Lily-Rose Depp, fruit of the love of Vanessa Paradis and Johnny Depp, is quoted in this article. She, too, is described as a child of stars who would take advantage of her parents’ notoriety to launch her professional career. It is quite naturally that Vanessa Paradis wanted to react to the criticisms of which her eldest daughter was the victim.. “My daughter, I have seen her work for eight years. She is a hard worker as you rarely see. She works a lot on her roles and her auditions. She did a lot of castings where she was not chosen, and she was unhappy about it, like the others” affirmed the interpreter of the legendary tube Joe the taxi.
A busy career at the age of 23
Both a model and an actress, Lily-Rose Depp landed her first film role in the film tusk in 2014 in which she plays with her father. In 2016, she played a secondary character in Planetarium alongside Natalie Portman. At the same time, she became the face of the brand Chanel. If her career is already well launched at the age of 23, nothing is certain for Lily-Rose Depp according to her mother: “I really think that the successful ones are the ones who work hard and have talent, whatever they call themselves. My daughter is one of them“, affirmed Vanessa Paradis.