Alexandra Lamy was invited Friday September 15, 2023 to the microphone of Nagui and Leïla Kaddour-Boudadi in the show The original band, broadcast on France Inter. During this meeting, the actress did not come alone, since she was accompanied by her sister, Audrey Lamy, and her daughter, Chloé Jouannet, also actresses. They were present as part of the promotion of their new series, Killer Coaster, available on the platform Amazon Prime the same day. During this interview, several subjects were discussed, including the synopsis of this fiction, anecdotes from filming, but also the respective careers of each. Thus, the former companion of Jean Dujardin revealed the way in which her pregnancy had had an impact on her acting career, but also on the couple she formed at the time with Thomas Jouannet. “We felt like we suddenly had an illness.“, she explained. To this, the actress adds that she had improbable behaviors: “We took him to clubs.” And to add for the benefit of his daughter: “We put you in a little deck chair next to the DJ and we danced”. “Since then, you’ve been completely deaf.” she quips.
Alexandra Lamy: “Having a child motivates us”
The star of the program A boy a girl then elaborated on the way we understand women and their talents once they become mothers: “It lasted a very long time. It was all those questions that we ask women: ‘Do you have children?’. We never ask a man that question.” Alexandra Lamy raised a painful reality as a professional: the fact that we could have decided in her place to take away roles from her or not to offer her any, based on the principle that she would no longer be capable of doing so due to lack of time. “Ah yes, young, so you won’t be available”, he was told at the time. Ultimately, the actress overcame this difficulty, since she has appeared in around fifty films and series since the start of her career. A nice revenge on this lean period. She also said it during the show: getting pregnant gave her “extraordinary strength”. “Having a child motivates us”, she concludes.