Vanessa Paradis at the Chanel Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2023 show (Paris, January 24, 2023). Getty Images:
The mother of Lily-Rose Depp, who was invited to the cultural program “Beau Geste”, admits that she gave up roles to devote herself to motherhood.
Knowing how to say no. it’s a lesson Vanessa Paradis has learned well. In 1990, she was just 16 when she won a César for Best Female Hope White wedding By Jean-Claude Brissot. And everything changes there: there are many offers, the pile of scripts is piling up. “When the movie came out, I started getting nice articles about me, not to make fun of or insult me, as it used to be. This film changed a lot,” confides the main stakeholder facing Pierre Lescourt in the cultural program “Beau Geste” broadcast on France 2 on April 23.
In the video, Vanessa Paradis wins the 1990 César for Best Young Female Hope
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“I wanted us to be three”
The young actress refuses, for example, the role that Jacques Doillon wants to offer her Little criminal. And even years later, I will say no to one of the most iconic roles in French cinema.
“It’s quite difficult for actresses to name names… The biggest one is Amelie Poulet. (…) Anyway, then the roles belong to those who interpreted them, and Audrey Tautou is absolutely divine in this role,” begins Vanessa Paradis, now on the poster. Mother at the Edward VII Theatre. Then continue. Obviously I liked the script, obviously I wanted to work [Jean-Pierre] Young. But I had just had my daughter and was about to make my fourth album (Bliss, Editor’s Note), for which I was starting to write songs… And then, I wanted us to be three people – at that time we were three people, my son was not yet born. I had a baby who was six months old. I didn’t want to break up. It was the reason for life. And I said to myself. “I will never regret it. Life is more important than a movie.” I say this because I was very, very spoiled by the level of offers and that I had ten years of success.
After the birth of her two children, Lily-Rose and Jack Depp, the result of her union with Johnny Depp, Vanessa Paradis spent more time on screen as on air. His companion was then established as a more mainstream actor. Tim Burton’s favorite stars as Jack Sparrow in the 2003 hit saga Pirates of the Caribbean. She became the absolute muse of Karl Lagerfeld and successively embodied the red Coco, Cambon bags and then the New Mademoiselle for the house of Chanel. In 2006, while Johnny Depp continued his rise in Hollywood, Vanessa Paradis featured on Louis Chedid’s album: The pink soldierthen releases the album Divinidyl in 2007. Before reuniting with cinema once and for all thanks to a film. The Heartbreaker: (2010).
In the video, Vanessa Paradis was moved by a message from her daughter Lily-Rose
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Source: Le Figaro
