Knowing how to say no: this is a lesson that Vanessa Paradis has learned well.
In 1990, she was only 16 when she received the César for best female hope for
Noce Blanche
by Jean-Claude Brisseau.
And there, everything changes: the proposals abound, the pile of scenarios piles up.
“When the movie came out, I started getting nice articles about me, not mocking or insulting, because that was really the case before.
This film changed a lot of things”, confides the main interested party facing Pierre Lescure, in the cultural program “Beau Geste” broadcast on France 2, on April 23.
On video, when Vanessa Paradis receives the César for best young female hope in 1990
“I wanted us to be three”
The young actress refuses, for example, the role that Jacques Doillon wants to offer her in
The Little Criminal
.
And will even say no, years later, to one of the most cult roles in French cinema.
“It's quite tricky for actresses, if I tell you the names... The biggest is
Amélie Poulain
.
(...) In any case after, the roles belong to those and those who interpreted them and Audrey Tautou is absolutely divine in this role ”, begins Vanessa Paradis, currently on the poster of Mom at the Edouard VII
Theater
.
Then to continue: Obviously that I liked the scenario, obviously that I wanted to work with [Jean-Pierre] Jeunet.
But I had just had my daughter and I was going to do my fourth album (
Bliss
, Editor's note) for which I was starting to write songs... And then, I wanted there to be three of us - at the time there were three of us, my son had not yet been born.
I had a little one who was six months old.
I didn't want to be separated.
It was a reason for life.
And I said to myself: "I will never regret. Life is more important than a movie."
I say that because I was very, very spoiled at the level of the proposals and that I had been experiencing success for ten years.
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After the birth of her two children, Lily-Rose and Jack Depp, fruit of her union with Johnny Depp, Vanessa Paradis made a more discreet time on the screen as on the airwaves.
His companion at the time established himself as a more mainstream actor.
Tim Burton's darling played Jack Sparrow in the successful
Pirates of the Caribbean
saga in 2003 .
She became the absolute muse of Karl Lagerfeld and successively embodied the red Coco, the Cambon bags then New Mademoiselle for the Chanel house.
In 2006, while Johnny Depp continued his rise in Hollywood, Vanessa Paradis participated in Louis Chedid's album,
Le Soldat rose
, then released the album
Divinidylle
in 2007
.
Before reconnecting once and for all with the cinema thanks to a film:
L'Arnacœur
(2010).
In video, Vanessa Paradis moved by a message from her daughter Lily-Rose