Jean-Paul Belmondo: the day he tried to seduce Brigitte Bardot

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Flashback – Jean-Paul Belmondo: the day he tried to seduce Brigitte Bardot

If he knew how to conquer the hearts of many women, Jean-Paul Belmondo did not manage to seduce a certain… Brigitte Bardot. During the 1950s, the actor had actually tried to approach the beautiful blonde.

During his life, Jean-Paul Belmondo has multiplied the conquests. From his first wife Élodie Constantin to Barbara Gandolfi, his last companion, via Natty Tardivel and Ursula Andress, the one who was considered a real sex symbol knew seduce many women. There is, however, one who probably did not succumb to the mythical charm of the deceased actor September 6th. It is Brigitte Bardot. Also considered a beauty icon at the time, the actress who became a fervent animal rights activist a, one day in the 1950s, rebuffed his advances.

In his book Belmondo by Belmondopublished in November 2016 by Fayard editions, le papa de Stella had gone back on his unsuccessful attempt to seduce the pretty blonde. “Only Brigitte Bardot has escaped, despite very convincing and torrid attempts together, my power of seduction”, he had written. On February 16, 2017, the movie star had given more details about this moment, when he was invited on the set of the Big Newspaper on Canal+. “I was doing a test with Bardot: I was fondling his breasts”, he said. Jean-Paul Belmondo was actually trying to land the lead role in the film The truthby Henri-Georges Clouzot, released in theaters in 1960, in which Brigitte Bardot already appeared.

Jean-Paul Belmondo and Laura Antonelli in 1974

Jean-Paul Belmondo and Laura Antonelli at the Cannes Film Festival in 1974

Laura Antonelli and Jean-Paul Belmondo on November 19, 1976

Jean-Paul Belmondo and his first wife Élodie, at the wedding of their daughter Patricia in 1986

Natty and Jean-Paul Belmondo in Paris, in 2000

Natty, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Leaticia and Johnny Hallyday on March 15, 2005

Jean-Paul Belmondo and Natty during Luciano Pavarotti’s farewell tour, at Paris Bercy, May 17, 2005

Natty and Jean-Paul Belmondo, at Roland Garros, May 25, 2005

Jean-Paul Belmondo and Natty at Roland Garros at Roland Garros on June 1, 2005

Natty Belmondo and her daughter Stella at the opening of the 34th Fête foraine des Tuileries at the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris, June 23, 2017

Natty Belmondo and her daughter Stella Belmondo in the stands during the Roland Garros tennis internationals in Paris, June 3, 2019

Paul Belmondo and his wife Luana Belmondo, Jean-Paul Belmondo’s daughter-in-law at the 35th International Automobile Festival grand prize ceremony at the Hôtel National des Invalides in Paris, January 28, 2020

Nathalie Tardivel (Natty) and her daughter Stella at the funeral of Jean-Paul Belmondo in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés church, in Paris on September 10, 2021

Jean-Paul Belmondo’s first wife, Élodie Constantin and her granddaughter Annabelle Belmondo at the funeral of Jean-Paul Belmondo in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés church, in Paris on September 10, 2021

Jean-Paul Belmondo’s first wife, Élodie Constantin, with Paul Belmondo’s sons during the national tribute ceremony for Jean-Paul Belmondo at the Hôtel des Invalides in Paris, September 9, 2021

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The steamy scene that could have brought them together

For this test, the two actors played a hottest scene, during which they had to kiss and hug. Even as they turned “once, twice, three times, four times…” the sequence, had specified Alain Delon’s friend, that “didn’t work”. And this for a very simple reason, at the time, the one we nicknamed BB was already in a relationship with Jean-Louis Trintignant. Jean-Paul Belmondo had already spoken about this failed story, in 2014. He had sent the actress a letter, for his 80th birthday, in which he recalled this memory. “Buried in my memory, I keep this magical moment, always present, when I held you in my arms for a fiery kiss during the tests of The truth of Clouzot”. Was Bébel nostalgic?

Article written in collaboration with 6Medias.