“His king”. Diego, 20, the fruit of the forgotten union of Maywen and Jean-Yves Le Four

He plays Louis XVI Jeanne du Barry, his mother Maiven’s new film, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Diego Le Four, born of a union with director and producer Jean-Yves Le Four, is not yet 20 years old and will climb the famous steps of the Riviera this Tuesday, May 16. The tall, tanned young man with messy hair and piercing eyes had other ambitions than breaking into the big screen.

Passion for tennis

Away from film sets, the son of Maiouen and Jean-Yves Le Four spent his childhood between school and the tennis courts, his father’s first love, with whom he shares that passion. Indeed, Jean-Yves Le Fur, sulphurous self-made man who has a career in fashion and TV production, traded balls with Yannick Nou in Nice when he was a teenager. A love that never left him, as in 1998 he created a magazine called TeleSportdiscontinued after five issues.

And, therefore, a passion has been passed on to his only son, who will make the headlines in 2021 and only 17 years old.Official Riviera, under the lens of photographer Pierre-Ange Carlotti. Racket in hand and a white towel around his neck, in these photos we already find Diego Le Mort displaying the quiet strength of the greatest, just like his icon, the legendary Swedish champion Björn Borg. “Tennis gave me back my self-confidence,” he explained in the columns of the magazine, who still nurtures the ambition to be among the 100 best players in the world.

In addition, he also gushed that tennis practice has been a “form of rebirth” for him, without elaborating further. Perhaps young Diego was struggling to find his place, the child of a fashionista and a movie personality. A background that may also have helped him shape his image as the young Louis XVI. “The character traits of Louis XVI, that is, somebody in his bubble who hates Versailles, who hates everything that’s fancy and everything, that’s a bit like my son’s character. He is not interested in anything material. He’s only interested in tennis, sports…” his mother Maiwen explained on the set of “Quotidien” on May 10, then promoting in full Jeanne du Barry. Adding, however, that he had agreed to play the role of Louis XVI without too many compromises.

Fusion link

The filmmaker maintains a deep bond, “merged,” he says, with his only son, “beautiful as a star.” Diego Le Four was born out of the latter’s passion for Jean-Yves Le Four, whom he met after a heartbreaking romance with Luc Besson, the father of her daughter Shanna (30). Married a director at a very young age Big bluewho left him in 1996 during filming for the famous model Milla Jovovich. Fifth elementMaven is seriously depressed at the time. His career is at a dead end, and so is his sentimental life.

Until 2002, when she met one Jean-Yves, a handsome man who had a meteoric rise in the world of fashion and media. A producer for TF1 and Canal+, the businessman produces, in particular, a series of documentaries. supermodels of her generation such as Carla Bruni, Naomi Campbell and Karen Mulder. He rubs shoulders with both Hollywood and All of Paris. We also owe him parallel editorial projects, such as the magazine Number:which he founded in 1998 with publisher Elizabeth Gianni or even DS magazinea year ago, which gained its footing by dealing with social issues, but above all by transforming a fabulous men’s magazine. To him.

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Narcissistic crack

A frequent socialite, Jean-Yves Le Four is also known for his relationships with Princess Stephanie of Monaco, with whom he would stay for several years, as well as top model Karen Mulder. But his love story with Maiven will perhaps be the most dazzling and passionate. If we don’t know the context in which the two lovers met, they will get married in December 2002, less than seven months after their first meeting, and next year they will have their first child. Before the divorce, one year later, in 2004.

Often described as layered, Maywen is no stranger to very intense relationships. If the mother of Diego Le Four has never revealed the details of her intense passion with the father of her son, she whispers that her film. my king released in 2015, will be heavily inspired by it. The filmmaker films the love story of a woman (Emmanuel Berko) and a narcissistic pervert (Vincent Cassel). A story where love on the verge of madness plunges its heroine into addiction.

trailer of Jeanne du BarryWith Maïwenn and Johnny Depp

Whatever the case, water has flown under the bridge since her divorce from Jean-Yves Le Four in 2004, and Maiwen now seems to be back. He also explained in a 2017 magazine column Marie Claire, the relationship he has with his two children, Shanna Besson and Diego Le Four. “When you have children, independence is over. We become slaves to love until the end of our days.” Has the 47-year-old director found his new king in his son Diego?