Like Audrey Tautou or Charlotte Rampling, Fanny Ardant fully embraces her age and does not seek to chase eternal youth by going under the knife.
A natural choice that could be seen as a point of pride or an asset in an industry that advocates youthism... but not for her.
“No, I don’t care,” she says honestly in an interview with
Télé-Loisirs
, published on March 11, 2024. “I don’t want to try to please and I don’t want to postpone the end.
I have always said that there are two things that are unworthy of complaining about: paying too much tax and getting old,” she adds, with her trademark frankness.
Age 75 threshold
The proof, the symbolic approach of her 75th birthday, which will take place on March 22, makes her impassive.
She affirms that this level arouses “nothing” in her, “except the impression of having lived”, in a positive way.
“At 18, I hadn’t done anything, I didn’t like the way I looked at myself.
Today, all these observations have gone away and I know that I don’t want to last ,
”
she continues.
If she says she does not want to look younger, the heroine of the film
The Woman Next Door
does not criticize those who resort to cosmetic surgery with this in mind.
“I don’t proselytize.
Deep down, I find that there is room for everyone,” concedes the actress, renowned for her non-conformism.
And to conclude: “What I like in life is the difference, the extremes, the excesses.
I don’t want to be told a route to follow.”
Aging with “intelligence and dignity”
In a long interview with
Madame Figaro
published in December 2023, Fanny Ardant already confided in her lucid and uninhibited relationship with the signs of the passing of time.
“There is something very tragic about old age.
In the eyes of young people, it is even a shipwreck.
But it's interesting to delve into it.
I want to go in and say to myself: “There you go.
You've known this since you were 15!
You're not going to act surprised now!”, she said, before declaring: “I want to live my old age with intelligence and dignity, because I hate the idea of feeling like a victim.”
If [society] has to transform us into robots who follow the dictates of beauty, fashion, cosmetic surgery and good health at all costs, we are lost!
Fanny Ardant
Indeed, the mother of three daughters explained that she did not intend to let society impose a definition of aging on her, but that she would decide for herself “when and how” she would age.
“If [society] has to transform us into robots who follow the dictates of beauty, fashion, cosmetic surgery and good health at all costs, we are lost!”, she lamented, before insisting : “It makes no sense to shape and diminish one's life for the sole purpose of arriving intact in one's tomb.”
The stars own their wrinkles
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