Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu stands out as the other star of the
Emily in Paris series
.
The Franco-Italian who gives the reply to Lily Collins embodies Sylvie Grateau, director of the communication agency where the American Emily Cooper lands.
Her character as a businesswoman who allows herself to have an affair with a younger photographer has grown over the seasons.
“Sylvie's character is the most fascinating;
she is inspiring,” Yvonne Hazelton, an American author who wrote about the series, told AFP.
In addition to her sense of chic, she is competent and masters every situation even in the face of problems”.
Even if the actress thinks that one should not overinterpret her character as she also confided to AFP: “One day, Darren (Star) asked me if we could learn from French women their freedom.
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A strong character which earned her in any case to be, at 59, one of the ambassadors of "French chic" abroad.
Asked by the magazine Page Six, the actress confided in her vision of beauty, but also of aging and the use of cosmetic surgery.
“Don't do too much to your face.
Just be kind and accept it.”
And the actress to continue: "We can do small things, but as soon as you try to do too much and that you do not assume, it seems a little... hum."
The actress indeed encourages women who are aging to accept the passage of time rather than fight it.
“Just be happy to be wiser.
I like this idea.
I think it brings me a serenity that I don't
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"It's something we should really appreciate instead of trying to go back to who we were 30 or 20 years ago.
It does not make sense.
It's great to just enjoy what we have and I think things are getting better and better."
Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu also confides to the magazine that age has allowed her to acquire a certain clairvoyance on the things that really matter, “especially in the fact of having good relations with people.
[...] I no longer feel the grudges that I used to feel.
I just forgive people, I move on.
Life is precious."
More generally, she also insists on the need not to set limits in an interview with the newspaper
20 Minutes
: “Many people, and moreover not only women, prevent themselves from overflowing.
Society encloses in an imagery and it is necessary to free it.
This question about women over 50 comes up often, we are not victims, we are just a little hypnotized by somewhat
mainstream
narratives .
We are victims only of ourselves and of the limitations we put on ourselves.
A whole philosophy.
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