The magic of being a father, it was only at 50 that Denis Podalydès tasted it. Interviewed by the Sunday newspaper, the actor revealed in 2014 that he had become the father of a little boy named Georges. If we do not know the identity of the mother, the one who is a member of the Comédie-Française confided how happy he was to finally know the happiness of having a child. “For the past fifteen years, I have given my all to my work. But since the birth of this child, the world has changed. I discovered a simple thing: anxieties no longer concern me, they have moved. I am no longer alone to live with myself. Self-care has shifted. I am no longer at the center of the circle.” he said. Three years later, the actor of the film Kiss whoever you want became a father for the second time, of a little girl.
In 2021, Denis Podalydès honored his son George who plays the role of Gabriel in the film The two Alfreds (the actor also shares the poster with his brother Bruno). Interviewed by The world, he confided how much the fact of having become a dad had soothed him. “It came back to me a lot, the fact of not having one. I was reminded: ‘So? Always not ?’ It bothered me” he thus indicated.
A dream that he has long thought he could not achieve because of his lack of confidence with the fairer sex. With journalists from SHE, he had thus revealed that his romantic dates were often disastrous because of his state of stress when he was alone with a woman. “The situation in love, the moment of equivocation, petrified me and even caused me a clinical problem (…) I was seized with ultra-violent nausea!” he thus revealed.
“It was my daily life until I was 25. To avoid discomfort, I had to tone down the conversation, which created a sort of perplexity in the girl to whom I had nevertheless shown very pronounced signs of interest.he added, explaining that he gets extremely boring on his dates.I, who was more of an entertainer in society, I became horribly boring alone, I struggled, I struggled against nausea, and the girl didn’t understand a thing.” he confided with amusement. Now a dad, the actor finally succeeded in seducing a woman who surely found his extreme shyness very touching.