Star of the small screen and daughter of the famous actress Nicole Courcel, TV host Julie Andrieu has never made a film. The medium has however offered her several times to go from entertainment to fiction, as she explains on Saturday at the microphone of Isabelle Morizet, on the occasion of her invitation to the show There is only one life in life. “I even had proposals from the big bad wolf Harvey Weinstein”, she remembers at the microphone of Europe 1 about the former film producer, convicted of rape and sexual assault.
“He had offered me to do a cooking show in the United States” she adds. “At one point, we saw each other quite a bit because it was a question of developing all that. And besides, he often offered me to play the actress. But that’s not my job at all, it’s not my inspiration. Besides, I don’t really understand the fascination for this job.”
An acting profession that never attracted her
Julie Andrieu knows the profession of actress well, since it was that of her mother, Nicole Courcel. “It’s a job that allowed her to live wonderful adventures, and above all to have this independence which was so important to her”, specifies the TV host. “She worked, like me, at 17. Which was still not easy at her time. And that allowed her to get out of this bourgeoisie from which she came and to which she was rather refractory. She has been able to travel and do a lot of things.”
But Nicole Courcel also took a critical look at this profession that had allowed her to escape her environment. A vision that infused the spirit of his daughter. “my mother always told me that, in the end, it was a job that for her was a little superficial. Mum had a very deeply rooted sense of the other, she was a revolutionary. She was really very militant on the left , alongside Michel Piccoli, whose life she shared, alongside Yves Montand and Simone Signoret”, recalls Julie Andrieu. “I believe that the profession of actor, at one point, seemed to her perhaps a little light. Besides, she got involved with associations, in particular in the fight against violence against children. And she always told me that she would have dreamed of being a criminal lawyer.”
Julie Andrieu therefore did not inherit a great admiration for this profession. “I have actor friends, like Guillaume Gallienne, whose work absolutely fascinates me”, she specifies however. “I have a lot of admiration for these people. Moreover, the side a bit of a mirror to the larks of the acting profession does not interest me much and I do not want to go into this duplicity. ” It is therefore unlikely to see the TV host one day swapping the small screen for the big one.