On February 22, 1986, Charlotte Gainsbourg won her first César for her performance in
L'Effrontée
. Acclaimed by the crowd but overwhelmed by emotion, it is between two sobs and in a breath that she barely pronounces her thanks. At that time, young Charlotte was still a 15-year-old teenager. Daughter of Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, she is known to the general public but here, with
L'Effrontée
, is the big revelation. From then on, the “daughter of” made a name for herself, a place in her own right in the seventh art.
During an exclusive cross-interview with Charlotte Rampling for
Madame Figaro
, the actress, now 52 years old, looks back on this premature celebrity which followed her throughout her life. To the question of whether the absence of anonymity weighs on her, Charlotte Gainsbourg responds straight away: “Yes, that’s why I liked living seven years in New York, from 2013 to 2020, a place where no one knew me or my parents; I could do what I wanted… Anonymity is recreation.”
Yvan Attal's wife nevertheless tempers: if her status as an actress restricts her tranquility, she is aware of being privileged. “I always have in mind this sentence that my father said to me when, as a teenager, I groaned whenever someone asked me for an autograph: “You don't realize how much you're going to suffer the day this doesn't happen. more…”» Just a reminder from Serge Gainsbourg that his daughter has kept in mind ever since, therefore.