“Each tattoo represents a person I love“, this is what Béatrice Dalle explained to Mouloud Achour this Monday April 8 in Click, on Canal+. The punkest of French actresses, revealed by Jean-Jacques Beineix’s film, “37°2 in the morning”, in 1986, returned to a friendly relationship she had with Gérard Depardieu’s son, Guillaume. And for whom she got a tattoo.
A tattoo in memory of Guillaume Depardieu
With him, she shared the poster for the film Process in 2005, then, he died on October 13, 2008 at age 37, of pneumonia, leaving his family, the profession and fans, completely in shock. A disappearance from which Béatrice Dalle never recovered, since she explained to Telerama in 2010 : “I can’t get over his death.I can’t look at a picture of him without crying. Every day I think of him…“
And added, during his appearance on Marc-Olivier Fogiel’s show, le Divan: “He could almost have been my lover. He was super sexy, but I was with Didier [JoeyStarr, NDLR] when I knew him. I think that’s why there was no story. I love this man. He loved living so much… The Little Prince of Saint-Exupéry is him.”
“Because that was what you named me“
To never forget the man who was cut down in full flight, and who was promised a prestigious career, Béatrice Dalle showed this week the tattoo she had dedicated to him on the forearm. We can read : “Paradox my love.” A mysterious message that she explained on her Instagram account on October 21, 2018, for a sad birthday. That day, a little more than 10 years after the death of her friend, Béatrice Dalle wrote: “Because that was how you named me. I decided to wear your colors, my precious Guillaume… 10 years without you. Thanks to Caesar because it’s thanks to you“.