On the occasion of the release of the second season ofIn therapy on Arte, Charlotte Gainsbourg, who plays a psychologist there, granted an interview to TV Magazine. The actress opened up regarding her exile in New York, where she lived anonymously for six years.
After a successful first season, In therapy returns with a second part, broadcast from April 7 on Arte and already available in full on Arte.tv. In the casting of the show by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, we find Frédéric Pierrot, in the skin of the psychologist, who receives brand new patients. He is helped by his referent shrink, interpreted by Charlotte Gainsbourg. The opportunity for the 50-year-old actress and singer to engage with TV Magazine, on March 31. Between several confidencesthe daughter of Serge Gainsbourg, who would have celebrated her 94th birthday this Saturday, April 2, mentioned his time in New Yorkwhere she lived for six years following the death of his sister Kate Barry in 2013.
Because it is indeed this death of her half-sister, a difficult moment for the actress, who pushed her to fly to America. “I mightn’t do it anymore…”, said Charlotte Gainsbourg. For her, going to New York was “the only solution”. “I discovered there what it was like to live in anonymity, to have a normal relationship with others”she told TV Magazine. An exile that probably transformed her. “For the first time, I understood that I was not so shy”assured the daughter of Jane Birkin. “When you don’t know me, I talk to people, I talk to taxi drivers, to mothers at school… My reserve comes from the fact that I am recognized“she said, before adding: “I know I’m very lucky. My dad made it clear enough to me.”
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His decision taken in New York regarding his father, Serge Gainsbourg
Living in New York has especially helped Yvan Attal’s wife to ask the right questions, and to reflect. The low, “I also understood that I had to settle the question of my father’s house either sell it or open a museum”, she explained. A decision that Charlotte Gainsbourg finally made, since the house at 5 bis rue de Verneuil, in Paris, has indeed been transformed into a museum and should soon open its doors. “It’s a gesture towards the public but also for my children: if I slam tomorrow, they won’t have to ask themselves the question!”concluded the mother of Ben, Jo and Alice.
Article written in collaboration with 6Medias.
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