Very modest about his private life, Edouard Baer is the proud father of a little girl named Iman born in 2006. The one who presented the Césars in 2015 nevertheless made rare and precious confidences with the journalists of the magazine She in 2013 : “I am not secret, I am discreet. If you ask me questions, I answer. Indeed, I have a 7 year old daughter, which I talk about in my last show… A la française! I end my piece with: ‘I see my daughter smiling at me, going through customs at Orly.’ For the rest, she has the good taste to look like her mother and adore his father’s shows. She knows the last songs by heart. To conclude on the subject, I think discretion is a virtue and a form of elegance.“
Highly complimentary about his family, the film’s actor Asterix and Obelix: Serving Her Majesty revealed how much his daughter’s well-being was important to him. Owner of a sublime house in Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône), the former master of ceremonies of the 71st Cannes Film Festival preferred to stay in Paris so that his daughter’s schooling would not be disturbed despite his desires to create a business in the provinces. “My daughter goes to school in Paris, otherwise I would have left. I would have loved to set up a kind of ‘factory’, a place that is both a theatre, a film studio, a restaurant, a music hall. And open it in Dakar or Montreal, or in a provincial town like Nantes (…). But I will one day if my daughter can go to school somewhere else“, he thus confided to Paris Match in 2018.
And for good reason, the actor of the film Open at night suffered greatly from his admission to a private Parisian establishment which had forced him to leave all his friends. “It made me very unhappy. It was no longer mixed, there were reactive, anti-Semitic hints, everything collapsed, I no longer succeeded, I didn’t understand. My parents didn’t realize that I was sad because I didn’t want to disappoint them, but it ruined those years for me. I kept a bad relationship with school, for me, it was a prison thing. As a result, I sometimes find it difficult to accompany my daughter well in her schooling… These are memories that freeze me, the arguments of the priests on single-sex, like ‘it distracts boys from rubbing shoulders with girls” he had explained to QG.