Very admiring of her mother, Charlotte Gainsbourg directed the film Jane by Charlotte which features an intimate Jane Birkin. If she was initially reluctant to be the star of a biographical film, the ex of Serge Gainsbourg was also hesitant about seeing herself on the screen. With a very modest temperament, the mother of the late Kate Barry also has trouble seeing herself aging, as her daughter confided in Femina version.
“My mother has the same problem as me who never liked seeing me at the cinema“, indicates the company of Yvan Attal. The interpreter, actress and director explains:”First, because I did not think I was good and, today, because of the physique, because of seeing myself getting old. It’s hard for her to look at herself, even if people tell her that she is beautiful, that it is a declaration of love. And although she has always defended the natural, I also film her in her daily life, like an old Englishwoman in her Breton house, even if I find it hard to recognize that my mother is getting old.“
For her part, the mother of Ben, Alice and Joe passed the milestone of fifty on July 21, 2021. A difficult step for the actress, who said she had some apprehensions about celebrating her 50th birthday. “I had the balls! But Yvan did what he could to help me. In the end, this anniversary has not fallen too badly on the agenda. There were the Cannes Festivals, then Deauville, Venice with Yves Saint Laurent, the film by Yvan, Angoulême and many other opportunities to dress up after wearing rags during confinement. I had a lot of fun being this little doll that we were dressing“, she revealed, now more appeased at the idea of aging.
The film Jane by Charlotte will be released in theaters on January 12, 2022.