In navy blue silk pajamas from the Falconeri brand, of which they are the muses, Estelle Lefébure and her daughter Emma Smet, lasciviously lying down, babble calmly, the time of a shoot.
“This position is quite natural for us, jokes Estelle Lefébure.
When my daughters were younger, we spent a lot of time together on my bed, on Sunday mornings at my mother's house in Normandy.
"We listened to the cowbells and the cackling of the hens," says Emma, pensive.
There, it's happiness, nature, calm.
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Emma Smet wears a cashmere coat, Falconeri, a tank top and skirt, Prada, a Louis Vuitton cap, and Pierre Hardy sneakers.
Photo Luc Braquet.
This paradise is in Normandy, near Tôtes, where Estelle grew up, where Charles Bovary had installed his wife.
Where from the first name of Emma, chosen by Estelle for her second daughter?
Maybe.
Except that Emma has nothing of a Flaubertian heroine with her long blond hair falling down to her waist, which she takes care of meticulously ("Every evening, I make pigtails neither too tight nor too loose, so that the hair don't break overnight."), and his tomboyish look.
We have always been very close despite, sometimes, the geographical distance and our busy schedules
Estelle Lefebure
"Put the cursor in the right place"
"What do we talk about when we're together?" Emma asks her mother with a smile.
“Nothing, everything, from us, answers Estelle.
We have always been very close despite, sometimes, the geographical distance and our busy schedules.
But we managed to never lose sight of each other, to call each other regularly, to not break the thread of our lives.
The right distance was found between the mother and her daughters.
“Mom is a real mom, confirms Emma.
Neither girlfriend nor too strict.
But very complicit.
She knew how to put the cursor in the right place.
She was always protective without wanting to suffocate me.
She gave me very valuable advice.
One of which I keep in my head: “Do everything you do seriously without taking yourself seriously”.
I believe this is the wisest and most concrete motto I
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Estelle Lefeburer is wearing a Falconeri cashmere sweater, a Louis Vuitton jacket, Polo Ralph Lauren trousers and Tod's glasses.
Photo Luc Braquet.
Beauty advice, perhaps?
“I'm very natural, very Norman, specifies Estelle, and I believe in simple ideas in this area.
Drinking water, sleeping, eating well are essential for me.
I have very fragile skin and the less I do, the better I feel.”
When I was little and people told me that I was the daughter of… or the granddaughter of…, I always asked myself: “But who are these people who know my parents so well?”
Emma Smet
Emma is a go-getter.
Did she have other choices with a famous supermodel mother, a recognized musician father and a grandfather, Johnny Hallyday, world star.
"It took me a long time to realize all this," confesses Emma.
When I was little and people told me that I was the daughter of… or the granddaughter of…, I always asked myself: “But who are these people who know my parents so well?”
Later, I understood.
But nothing has ever affected my relationship with my family members, whether they are famous or not.
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Estelle Lefébure is wearing a silk satin pajama set, Intimissimi.
Emma Smet is wearing a silk satin pajama jacket and cotton shorts, Intimissimi.
Photo Luc Braquet.
Transmission
The parents of the young Emma take care of the grain to avoid all the slippages that can lead to fame.
When she was younger, she had no Facebook page or social media account.
A healthy life.
“With my maternal grandmother, we went to McDo, which my mother disapproved of, and when I was with my paternal grandfather, I spent my time watching films.
I think it was when I saw
The Lion King
that I knew I wanted to make films: I loved the music, the energy, the movement.
I wanted to be Catherine Deneuve, to wear sun dresses or moon dresses
Estelle Lefebure
As a child, Emma performed small theater shows with her sister Ilona and her aunt Darina, the daughter of Sylvie Vartan.
At 17, Emma left for London and joined the London Film Academy, then did an internship in a production company, Scoop Films.
“I did everything there, even getting up at four in the morning to block cars before a shoot.”
She adores.
At the MetFilm School, she learned all the film professions, directing, producing, writing.
Back in France, Emma continues the castings, is chosen in 2019 to play the role of Sofia in the TF1 series,
Tomorrow belongs to us,
which she temporarily abandons for the theater with the play
The Game of Truth,
written by Philippe Lellouche.
A journey that echoes that of his mother.
“That's called transmission, isn't it?” said Emma learnedly.
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Estelle Lefeburer is wearing a cashmere sweater, Falconeri and Mother jeans.
Emma: Smet is wearing a cashmere sweater and a cotton and silk T-shirt, Falconeri, and Mother jeans.
Hairdresser Sylvain Decolfmacker.
Makeup Jolanta Cedro.
Manicure Huberte Cesarion.
Photo Luc Braquet.
Tame your fear
After being a supermodel, photographed by the greatest (Mario Testino, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon), muse of fashion designer Thierry Mugler, Estelle Lefébure joined the world of television, theater and cinema.
“My cult film was
Donkey Skin,
remembers Estelle.
This musical enchanted me.
I wanted to be Catherine Deneuve, to wear sun dresses or moon dresses.
I also wanted to be Catherine Deneuve in
Le Sauvage,
with Yves Montand, or to be Robin Wright in
Forrest Gump
.
I was cast by Jean-Paul Rappeneau to play the role of Roxanne in
Cyrano de Bergerac
, they preferred the young Anne Brochet!
But it was a great experience.
I
The Actresses' Ball
.
Recently, Estelle Lefébure appeared on stage in
L'Invitation
, by Hadrien Raccah, and
Les Grandes Ambitions,
where she plays alongside Philippe Lellouche and M. Pokora.
“These are other sensations.
The theater forces you to put yourself in danger.
The contact with the public is great but sometimes terrifying.
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Like her mother, Emma overcomes her fear.
“Very young, I was taken on set or in recording studios.
I think I've always liked these clan atmospheres where everything is shared, the joys as well as the sorrows.
And then, once the show is over, it's depression.
It's like the end of a green class.
You feel completely naked."
Estelle concludes: “That's why you should never stop working.
Come on, Emma, on track.
Let’s resume the shoot…”