On October 4, Catherine Deneuve will return to the cinema to star in the film Bernadette, directed by Léa Domenach. This feature film, based on real events, retraces the life of Bernadette Chirac, at the time when her husband, the former President of the Republic Jacques Chirac, was campaigning to gain access to the Élysée. For several weeks now, the 79-year-old actress has been promoting this work by making numerous television appearances.
After answering questions from Anne-Sophie Lapix on France 2 and giving her opinion on the “nerdy” side of Bernadette Chirac, Catherine Deneuve spoke to journalists Amandine Bégot and Stéphane Boudsocq in the RTL Matin show this Friday September 29, 2023. The opportunity for the actress to give her opinion on social networks.
This Wednesday, October 4, 2023, Catherine Deneuve was expected on the set of the show Quotidien. From the outset, the actress was confronted with a column by Jean-Michel Apathy which did not please her at all… “I don’t understand why you go on longer about Chirac’s driver. Less about Bernadette Chirac than about the driver of Jacques Chirac. What amuses you so much in this story?” she then said. Enough to cause a little discomfort on set.
The day after this episode, the columnist spoke on the TMC talk show where he has been working since the start of the school year. Jean-Michel Apathy then explained that the actress was recalcitrant and that she refused to allow him to offer her the work he was talking about. “She showed, this story […], how the system of power was a system imagined by Jacques Chirac, built by Jacques Chirac, very unhealthy. And which did not correspond to what we have the right to expect in a democracy”. And to continue: “On the set, a man irritated her ears by telling her about an old story by Jacques Chirac. She responded to him with class…”. Annoyed, Jean-Michel Apathy then concluded: “Well done ma’am, come back whenever you want”.
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