It is no coincidence that the role of Claire, the super-psy ofIn therapy, season 2, sticks to his skin! Since she was 18, Charlotte Gainsbourg has seen these doctors of the soul. They helped her to reconcile with herself and to overcome the great dramas of her life: the premature death of her father Serge and the suicide of her sister, Kate, in 2013.
No doubt the actress also confided on the couch regarding her relationship with her companion, also the father of her three children, Yvan Attal… These two have shared everything or almost everything for more than thirty years: family life, not always easy, the ups and downs of an artist’s life, and even film sets!
The actress admits having plunged into a “massive” depression.
Sources of happiness but also of conflicts… Not easy indeed to play under the leadership of the uncompromising director that is Yvan! Especially when the film is inspired by intimate autobiographical elements, as in My wife is an actress, They got married and had many childrenor more recently My Stupid Dogreleased in 2019. “On set, Yvan is tough. […] He is impulsive, impatient, it is his nature. Me, it stresses me out when people talk to me harshly, ”confided the actress to The Illustrated.
Reproach
The violent death of Kate who threw herself out of the window marks a turning point in their lives. Probably unable to stay in Paris, the actress moved to New York, soon joined by Yvan, Ben, Alice and Jo. Strangely, she finds peace in this megalopolis in perpetual activity. Could it be because her man goes very regularly to France, leaving her alone with the children? Still, in his New York exile,
Charlotte saw once more: “I am free. My habits have become more selfish, in a good way,” she explained to Elle. If he is always happy to find her, Yvan does not hesitate to send, through the media, a few messages to the one who never wanted to marry him. “I can’t believe that outside of me, when I’m not there, she’s faithful…”, he confided to the magazine His.
“Yvan is tough. It stresses me out when people talk to me harshly.”
Would he himself be free from reproach? “I sometimes come across attractive people,” he also admitted in Marie Claire.
In 2020, confinement requires, the couple does not see each other for several months. When the health restrictions are lifted, Charlotte returns to Paris where a thousand projects await her, including that of finally living once more under the same roof as her companion. But this homecoming is far from going as planned.
malaise
Would she have discovered, following this long forced separation, that Yvan had changed his habits? Still, she would then have gone through a difficult period, as she opened herself up to Unbreakable “I plunged into a massive depression. “Once once more, it’s a shrink who, since then, would help him overcome his discomfort.
Does this mean that, from now on, everything is going for the best in the best of all possible worlds with Yvan? According to certain rumors, the married life would not always be easy to bear for Charlotte. Without going so far as to confirm these “hearsays”, a source close to the couple told us that their relationship would sometimes be strained…
Good news however, on July 21 the whole family flew to Israel where the Jerusalem Film Festival is being held.
There are presented Passengers of the night de Mikhaël Hers et Human things by Yvan Attal, two feature films in which Charlotte plays.
Let’s hope that this trip to the promised land will allow these two great artists to meet once more…
Claude LEBLANC
