Hidden in his house in the Alpilles, Daniel Auteuil is happy: his wife, Aude, his youngest son, Zachary (12), a few animals and time to get back to music… No need for more for the actor of 72 years old who returned to these simple pleasures in the last Paris Match February 3, 2022. The opportunity for him to come back to his big age difference with his half.
During the summer of 2018, he obviously attended the wedding of his youngest daughter, Nelly – born of his love affair with Emmanuelle Béart – with Lucas Veil, son of Agnès Buzyn and grandson of Simone Veil. His eldest, Aurore, is the mother of three children… and is almost the same age as Aude, his wife for more than a decade. A 27-year age difference that doesn’t really bother him.
“At the start, faced with the age difference, we have a form of lucidity and we say to ourselves: no, no, no. But life prevails. Falling on the right person is an extraordinary opportunity. It was her and it was me, at the right time. I can’t say the stories before weren’t perfect but surely one or the other weren’t ready…“
Daniel Auteuil also recognizes that he is not the same father as at 30, the age at which he had Aurore, than at 42, when he had Nelly. “Today, with my son, I am more present and I have a well anchored daily life. I believe I have succeeded in this. We share a lot of things and he passes on his passions to me… My son is crazy about fishing! I love my three children madly.“Now it is in the South that he thrives as a family.”With my wife and my son, I found the Alpilles of my childhood. […] Life in the South is sweet and biblically simple. It’s simple, I’m never bored“.