Jean-Louis Trintignant is dead, his family announced the terrible news to AFP this Friday, June 17, 2022. If for many the late actor Jean-Louis Trintignant is associated with Nadine, the one with whom he had had the late Marie Trintignant, his love life had been particularly rich. Married for the first time in 1954, he had ended this union because of his crush on Brigitte Bardot.
Indeed, Jean-Louis Trintignant and BB met in 1956 on the set of the cult film And God created the woman directed by Roger Vadim. At that time, he was then married to Brigitte Bardot, their union having been sealed before the mayor in 1952. As for Jean-Louis, he was married to Stéphane Audran. Never mind, the two heroes of the film fall in love after a difficult start as playmates and two marriages then break up. “By dint of being natural in my love scenes with Jean-Louis, I quite naturally end up loving him. I felt a devouring passion for him“, wrote Bardot in his memoirs. “Trintignant wanted a proof of love, a sacrifice, and threatened not to see Brigitte again if she did not leave me immediately.“, had for his part revealed Vadim, reported Marie Claire.
Jean-Louis Trintignant will then definitely be in a relationship with Brigitte Bardot, to the great drama of his wife Stéphane Audran. But, not resentful, this one will however give him the reply three times thereafter: in 1968 in The Hindsin 1971 in Without apparent mobile and in 1982 in Boulevard of the Assassins. It must be said that in the meantime the story with Bardot had ended, Jean-Louis having put an end to it in 1957 convinced that BB had been unfaithful while he was doing his military service.
Despite the years, Trintignant and Bardot were angry. Interviewed by the magazine Gala, the actress had mentioned the men in her life, Sami Frey and Jean-Louis Trintignant in the lead. Asked if she had any news, she replied: “Nothing. Neither one nor the other. But I can’t be friends with the men I loved so much. Jean Louis and Sami were, I believe, the greatest loves of my life, the most important, the deepest, the most irreplaceable. To preserve friendship after having known passion would be an alms which would not correspond to me. I am too complete. So I prefer to have nothing at all.“