They said to themselves “Yes” for better and for worse. But the trials, as difficult as they may have been, have never tainted their love. Guest on the set of the show As an asideon Canal+ on Tuesday January 25, 2022, Bernard Campan returned to a complicated episode in the history of his marriage: the relationship that his wife, Anne – mother of her two daughters Nina and Loan –has long maintained with alcohol.
Finally, it is a form of spirituality
“When Anne came out of alcoholism, her addiction, she did it thanks to Alcoholics Anonymoussays Bernard Campan to Nathalie Levy, the voice-over of the program. And for me, it was an opportunity to discover them. It’s really something that really impressed me. Finally, it is a form of spirituality.” Of course, the fact that he held his wife’s hand during this period was no secret. The filmmaker even directed the film The dark sidein 2006, inspired by their own experience.
I was personally confronted with this disease
“When I wrote The dark sideit necessarily involved Anne, she was the first reader of the first versionhe recalls. Anyway, she’s the one who reads the first drafts of my screenplays each time.“Two years after the release of this feature film, in which Bernard Campan gave the reply to Karin Viard and Jean-Hugues Anglade, his wife Anne evoked in all frankness her old worries in the columns of Paris Match. “I was personally confronted with this diseaseshe confessed. Faced with his project, I had complete confidence in Bernard. His benevolent gaze made him write a film as moving as success.”
Of course, the public got to know Bernard Campan in a somewhat more amusing context. The actor and comedian, who made the whole country laugh in the 1990s, is also preparing to find Pascal Légitimus and Didier Bourdon, his friends from the troupe Les Inconnus. The trio will meet on a film set in 2022 on the occasion of a film that they did not write, but in which they play together. This is a project that may not remain unknown for long…