The actor Jean-Louis Trintignant has left us. It is his family who announces his death this Friday, June 17, 2022. An essential figure on the screens, the 91-year-old actor had not shone only for his stories engraved forever on film: he also had a particularly dense intimate life! Among his conquests, there was notably the mythical Romy Schneider.
Jean-Louis Trintignant had met Romy in 1973 on the set of the film The train, directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre. It is, as had already happened before with Brigitte Bardot, love at first sight for his partner! They will then live a loving passion for three months. Problem: at that time he was then married – his second union – to Nadine Marquand who became Nadine Trintignant in 1961. In an interview for France Sunday, the writer and journalist Sarah Briand had mentioned the shooting of this film on which the whole team had understood that something was happening between the two actors. “She [Romy Schneider, NDLR] think only of this intense passion that haunts her and the moments that follow when the director says ‘Cut!’” she said then. The actress will live very badly that Jean-Louis Trintignant puts an end to their romance, not wanting to break his marriage with Nadine.
Clearly not born from the last rain, Nadine Trintignant – who reacted to the death of her ex-husband – knew that her husband was not the faithful type but she had come to terms with it. “First, I really liked Romy. She was truly a very beautiful, intelligent, charming woman. And I said to her: ‘She, she might manage to make you happy’“, had told the director on the set of the show It’s up to you in November 2021. Finally, Nadine and Jean-Louis – who had three children, Marie, Pauline and Vincent – will separate at the end of the 1970s and their divorce will be officially pronounced in the early 1980s. After the divorce, the actor will be in a relationship with Marianne Hoepfner while Nadine will live on her side a beautiful romance with Alain Corneau.