Recently featured in the TV movie They love each other…well, almost! of Hervé Brami, Carole Bouquet left the film sets for a while. The public will indeed find her, from September 15 to October 12, 2022, on the stage of La Scala, in Paris. The actress will play Bérénice, in the eponymous tragedy by Jean Racine, and spectators are already looking to get their tickets. There is one who should probably come to applaud him, his son Dimitri Rassam.
Dimitri, 40, is the fruit of love between Carole Bouquet and director Jean-Pierre Rassam. This story, from the start, was pure madness for the actress, who fell in love at first sight. “Jean-Pierre arrived, he walked like Charlie Chaplin and spoke without stoppingshe says in an interview with the newspaper The world. As soon as he walked in, I loved him. I was dazzled by the intelligence of this man, his humor“. Unfortunately, the lovebirds did not experience ahappy ending like in romantic comedies.
For a long time I was unable to speak of his death
In 1985, death separated them in an extremely brutal and premature way. Jean-Pierre Rassam, known for his various addictions, including one to heroin, died in January 1985 at the age of 44… despite the efforts of his partner. She had brought him to Greece, at the time of the filming of the James Bond film, Just for your eyes, to wean him. “Then we shot in London, I had organized everything so that he didn’t have any temptations. I made a child with him because he was fine, he had stopped, she reminds. I thought, like a gourd, that I would protect him. I now know that love does not heal. Jean-Pierre did not die of an overdose. He had to continue taking Gardenal, to counterbalance the effects of the heroin, and had epileptic seizures. On January 28, 1985, his heart gave out. My life changed that day. For a long time, I was unable to talk about his death, I couldn’t find the words…”