Social events, very little for her. Gossip, not for her either! At 50, Barbara Schulz prefers to concentrate on her job, she who likes more than anything to find herself on the boards of a theater. That’s good: she is currently in Paris playing a play by William Shakespeare and finds an author she had studied when she was younger.
One more reason to be happy for this eternal optimist, who has now decided to assume this joyful side that she has long rejected. “For a long time, I didn’t like journalists describing me as ‘bubbly’ or ‘solar’ because I felt that was synonymous with naivety, candor and recklessness, when I was only dreaming than to be mysterious and terribly woman“, she says in an interview for Female version.
“But I stopped fighting against my nature and although over the years we take blows and I am also a very melancholy person, I decided to remain myself.“, she concludes, happy with this new state of mind. Even if it could have played tricks on her in the past with her various lovers: “No, in reality, it’s in my personality: some get up sulking; me, barely awake, I am enthusiastic – the men in my life have not always supported it, moreover“.
If her two previous husbands did not really like her character, it seems that this does not bother Arie Elmaleh, who has been her companion since 2015, despite several moments of separation. The two lovers met at the theater and form a beautiful blended family with the two children of the actress (Minne, 17, and Jeremy, 10) and those of Gad Elmaleh’s brother (Isaac, 10 and Amalia, 8 ).
If she doesn’t say anything about her current love affair in her interview with Female version, she is on the other hand very aware of the person who inspired her with this tenacious optimism: her father, who died the day of the birth of his daughter, who transmitted to her a certain madness. “My father, in particular, was fanciful. During the holidays, he would show us around abandoned houses, pick up girls who became our babysitters all summer long and form commandos to free caged birds.“, she says with humor and tenderness.
A natural actress, who assumes her smile, her age and her faults and who can be found on the stage of the Pépinière Théâtre in Paris until May, then on tour in the provinces in 2023.