Charlotte Gainsbourg’s private life continues to unleash passions. Four years ago, the happy mother of three decided to shoot a documentary focused on her mother Jane Birkin. The work called “Jane by Charlotte” will be unveiled to the public this Wednesday, January 12, 2022. In full promotion, the duo spoke at length with the journalists of the “Sunday Newspaper” January 2, 2022. Mother and daughter have a lot in common. They were both inspired by a famous mother figure. As a reminder, Jane Birkin’s mother was an actress named Judy Campbell.
“For me, it was not complicated”, analyzed the grandmother of Ben, Alice and Joe and continued with philosophy: “My mother was sublime, classy and wonderful. My friends envied me because she was much funnier than theirs. When she arrived at my boarding school in her purple convertible Triumph, scarf in the wind and dark glasses, I sometimes wanted to have a more discreet mother, but I was proud. I only suffered from her glamor professionally when the tradespeople in England told me I was not like her. “
As for Charlotte Gainsbourg, she struggled to grow with the notoriety of her father. “Me, I did not have the beauty of my mother”, confessed the companion of Yvan Attal. “It was hard to come to terms with myself physically.”
Thriving in the middle of the seventh art has not always been easy for the actress. In 1995, Charlotte Gainsbourg hit the screen in the film “L’Effrontée”. In the script, she is described as “ungrateful and pretty”. A description that his father Serge Gainsbourg often emphasized to him. “My father, for whom beauty was important, said that I was an orchid disguised as a nettle. It’s a nice compliment, but I took it badly ”, she thus concluded. Words that haunted her for a long time …
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