“If I were twenty years old, I think I would like to have children.” Sophie Marceau admits in a long interview.

Sophie Marceau was a “quite shy” child who was just trying to “figure life out”. At least that’s what he explained in a new interview with a Belgian daily Free this Monday, October 23, to promote his book Undergroundwhich was released last spring, portrays thirteen women caught between fiction and reality.

The actress looked back on her childhood, her love story with Andrzej Žulawski, her film career and even spoke briefly about current events. He, who is engaged in the protection of the environment and humanitarian goals, explained. “The world is going bad (…) I would really like to be more positive because there are great things. But if I announce twenty years, I wonder if I will want to have children.” A response that echoes comments made by several other personalities, including journalist Salome Saquet, who justified her desire to have children last week at France Inter, not least because of her eco-concern.

Women in cinema

During the interview, Sophie Marceau was questioned about the evolution of equality between women and men in society. “Me too not a fashion effect. Despite some shortcomings, it is a very important movement in the history of the evolution of women in the world. This made us realize something. nothing is ever taken for granted, he explained. As Simone de Beauvoir said: Whenever civilization declines, women and children are always the first to suffer. Victor Hugo said the same thing about poverty. I have this story: I am a woman from a cruel environment. I know the difficulty of breaking free. Men have their place. Women should always earn their own.” the translator of A party actually comes from a modest and religious French family, “quite close-knit, proletarian class”, by a peasant mother. His father, Benoit Maupou, was a truck driver and house painter, and his mother, Simone Morissette, remained a homemaker for a long time.

At the age of 56, Sophie Marceau calmly approaches the passing of the years. “I like getting old,” she enthused. I feel in good shape. I don’t hurt anywhere. We must live, we will all die. I recently heard a phrase that I really like. “When you’re old, you’re all age.” Isn’t it great? When I’m on my bike, I’m fourteen, in my body, in my life, in my head. And added: “I live in the present moment. I don’t like looking back. I’m not nostalgic.”

The men in her life

Another recurring theme is her passionate relationship with director and director Andrzej Żulawski, 26 years her senior, with a bourgeois background that is her opposite. “I like contrasts, contrasts. I like to bring people together, unite contradictions,” he laughed at this idyll, which lasted almost eighteen years, from 1984 to 2001. 2016. Sophie Marceau answers his question today. “I don’t have an answer yet. We have been asking ourselves this question for years (…) I don’t really like the “models” of life, the acquired knowledge. I don’t like to know what will happen after a long time. I like questioning, wasteland, boredom, nothing, “not sure”. I hate things that are over-achieved.”

A successful actress, playing in front of the camera of Pialat and François Ozon, Sophie Marceau also turned to writing a few years ago. Back Underground, his new novel, thus he gives himself to his audience in a different way, indirectly serving his pieces through a new artistic form. “Who is Sophie Maupu? Does it exist?” he asks then Free. Answer: “Yes, but he is modest.” And he is happy? “Yes” too, but “not 24 hours”.