They loved each other and never quite left each other. Guest of the show As an aside on Canal + Thursday February 10, Melvil Poupaud returned to his “fusional” relationship with Chiara Mastroianni, a former high school friend who became his first love, before becoming a friend for life. The agreement is so good that the actor and musician also got closer to Benjamin Biolay, who also shared the life of the actress in the early 2000s.
As he receives a framed photo of Marcello Mastroianni as a gift, “one of his absolute idols“, Melvil Poupaud explains: “The chance I had was to meet him thanks to Chiara [la fille de l’acteur, née de ses amours avec Catherine Deneuve, NDLR], who is my best friend. We were in high school together.” The 49-year-old actor, who will soon be on Canal+ in the second season ofUFO(s)recalls that she was his “lover” and that she remained a “very very dear friend” whom he sees very often. Moreover, with Benjamin Biolay, another “good friend“, which they form”a small club“. A merry band that also counts each other’s children, “and then Chiara’s mother too“.
From the magazine SHE in 2011, Melvil Poupaud had recounted his meeting with Chiara Mastroianni at the end of the 1980s at Lycée Fénelon, in Paris, “in Italian class”: “From 16 to 20 years old, we were very close, it was idyllic. We lived almost like retirees, we didn’t go out, we had dogs and cats, our parents were even worried at one point. After the breakup, we remained great friends”he remembered.
We still love him, by the way
After his romance with Chiara Mastroianni, which ended in the early 1990s, Melvil Poupaud started a new life with the novelist and screenwriter Georgina Tacou, the mother of his daughter Anna-Livia (20). The couple are now separated. For her part, Chiara Mastroianni had a first child in 1996, Milo, with the sculptor Pierre Torreton. She then married Benjamin Biolay in 2002 and gave birth to their daughter Anna (18). The 49-year-old actress now shares the life of Benoît Poelvoorde.