Known for her roles in popular comedies such as
Eyjafjallajökull
in 2013,
Superchondriaque
a year later or even
La Ch'tite famille
in 2018 with Dany Boon,
Valérie Bonneton
also played in
We will end up together
in 2019 or even
Les petits mouchoirs
with Gilles Lellouche, Marion Cotillard or even Jean Dujardin.
This role also earned her a nomination for the César for Best Supporting Actress in 2011.
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And if this film, in a way, launched her career, it also means the end for the 53-year-old actress.
And indeed, it was during the promotion of the feature film directed by Guillaume Canet that the actress in the role of Véronique, and
François Cluzet
, who plays her husband Max Cantara, decided to put an end to their relationship, thirteen years after the beginning of their story and after giving birth to two children.
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She returned to this separation and, more broadly, to her vision of the couple and commitment to Isabelle Ithurburu in the portrait of the week on “50'Inside” broadcast this Saturday, February 17 on TF1.
“I started working then.
I think that being forced to take things in hand, to decide everything, inevitably we feel that everything is possible.
That we can do anything.”
“
It can’t work any other way.”
More than ten years after her separation from the father of her children, Valérie Bonneton shared the evolution of her vision of the couple with Isabelle Ithurburu.
“I always thought that a successful couple, who were happy together, are two solitudes together.
It can’t work any other way.”
“
The fusion after a while, finally, that’s it.
Or the other who asks questions of the other:
“what are you doing?”, “who are you eating with?”
or “what do you see?”
This can't work.
We have to be absolutely independent
,” shares Valérie Bonneton.
But this way of conceiving the couple did not come to him following his breakup.
“I’ve always thought that, since I was young, since I was 20.
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If the journalist who has taken over the reins of “50' Inside” since the start of the school year affirms that the actress is
“independence incarnate”
, the latter replies that she has no choice.
“In any case, we are born and we die alone.
It's the only truth.
»
And for the woman who lived for more than ten years with François Cluzet, marriage remains a sensitive subject.
“Just the idea of taking someone’s name seems absurd to me.
I say to myself
“but how do we actually change our name?”
.
I don't know, there's something that doesn't ring true about me.
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