Between them, there is no clichéd story where mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are pulling each other's paws.
Laetitia Casta and Brigitte Sy get along so well that the latter entrusted her daughter-in-law with the main role in her new film.
In
Happiness is for Tomorrow
, released Wednesday January 31, Laetitia Casta plays the role of Sophie, a mother whose boring life will suddenly be turned upside down by the arrival of Claude, her lover and robber.
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“I first met a woman”
Asked by Nice-Matin about the fact that her status as daughter-in-law facilitated her “integration into the world of Brigitte Sy”, Laetitia Casta replied: “The human encounter with Brigitte, which took an important place in my life , is decisive.
I was deeply touched by what she expressed, by her experience, her story.
It took precedence over her being part of my family.”
The 45-year-old actress has shared the life of Louis Garrel, the eldest son of Brigitte Sy, since 2015. The couple married in 2017 and welcomed their first child, Azel, in 2021.
But Laetitia Casta affirms, it is not the family ties that unite them that pushed her to accept this collaboration.
“Above all, I met a woman,” she told the Nice newspaper.
Then, she spoke to me about her project, in which I wanted to participate, having the impression, after having shot two films with Louis Garrel, of closing something, of freeing myself from the gaze of the directors and of rediscovering a certain authenticity.
It was very important to me.”
Although this is the first time that Laetitia Casta has collaborated with her mother-in-law, she is already used to working with her family and particularly with her husband.
In 2018, the couple shared the poster for
The Faithful Man
, before finding themselves on the set of
The Crusade
, in 2021.