Josiane Balasko never minced her words. And it is not at 73 that it will begin! Workaholic, this former Splendid returns to the screens with Golden hands. The latest achievement by Isabelle Mergault who, after the success of I find you very beautiful (2005), finally widowed (2008) and Give and take (2010), finally goes back behind the camera. In this “feel good movie” against a background of social discrepancy, Josiane Balasko plays a healer who will save the lower back of Lambert Wilson, a haughty French academic who, little by little, will regain a taste for life. On screen as in life, the actress seems uninhibited… She has indeed been swimming in happiness for 20 years with George Aguillar, an American comedian of Native American origin. A love at first sight for the mother of Marilou Berry and Rudy while she was still married: “We met on a set (Frenchman’s soneditor’s note). There was a ceremony that was organized, we were absolutely not aware of it, during which I found myself married to the Indian chief (…) It turned out that the Indian chief was George, and the first something that Gérard Lauzier told me three months before the shoot was: ‘Josiane, I found you a handsome husband’ “, she explained at the time to Michel Drucker on the set of Can’t wait for Sunday. Then add: “At the time I was married in addition (…) So there you go, there are things that are written what…“.
️ Pensions: “I see people fighting against a wall. With Mr. Macron there is a huge lack of empathy”, says Josiane Balasko. #LeJournalUnexpected@ophmeunierpic.twitter.com/XOIE4gUUXP
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“I see people fighting against a wall”
Happy in life, the actress is also happy on the film sets that she always frequents. Even if, at her age, she recognizes that this remains an exception… Questioned on this subject by Ophélie Meunier this Saturday June 3, 2023 on RTLIn The Unexpected Diary the actress entrusts her analysis: “it’s true that from the age of 50, it’s a little more difficult. But less than in the United States where a star, from 50 years old, must be really lifted and impeccable to continue to work…” she admits. And it is always with the same frankness and freedom of tone, that she replied to the journalist when the latter asked her about the current social crisis. The one who was Thierry Lhermitte’s imitable sidekick in Nightof drunkenness says: “I see people fighting against a wall, at Mr. Macron’s there is a huge lack of empathy, therefore dialogue is not possible., she said very clearly. Before adding: “Indeed it is degenerating, and I am very respectful of all these people who are fighting. And they are fighting for something, it is not for the sole pleasure of going to demonstrate”.
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