Isabelle Adjani warns her niece Zoé who looks so much like her, daughter of her brother who died in 2010

On the poster of Masquerade with Pierre Niney, under the direction of Nicolas Bedos, Isabelle Adjani will then be on the small screen in Diana of Poitiers, epic achievement by Josée Dayan. The indefatigable actress at the 5 César has also just returned from Corsica where she has just shot the next film by Mélanie Laurent, and is preparing the release of a solo album produced and directed by Pascal Obispo. A busy news for the 67-year-old star who multiplies the interviews, breaking the image of a distant icon. Indeed, in each of her interviews, she reveals herself a little more, on her celibacy which suits her well or, as in the magazine Galaon his relationship with his niece Zoewho took the path of acting.

Isabelle Adjani made all her talent shine in the eyes of the general public in 1974 with The slap by Claude Pinoteau, facing the sacred monster that is Lino Ventura. Now in her sixties, she benefits from an experience that she wants to pass on to her own niece, Zoé Adjani, who we saw last year in Honey cigar and whose features – notably the mouth – are so reminiscent of those of her illustrious aunt. She wishes to protect her from the harmful aspects of which she paid the price in her youth: “I arrived without codes or keys. I learned everything sometimes against my will and also to my detriment. This is, for example, something that I try to avoid for my niece Zoé Adjani, by giving her tips for protect herself from anything that could hurt her, slow her down. To turn obstacles into opportunities, which she captures very well.“

We must remain in the human and in the love of the other

The huge Queen Margot wants to protect the daughter of her brother, who died suddenly in 2010 and whom she described as a damaged angel, while advising her not to forget herself and to keep all the humanity she has within her: “I advise him not to forget the mask of others and to practice the art of war, that is to say, to know how to use the weapons of those who do not wish you well. What also counts is not to allow its natural goodness to be distorted. Because choosing the wrong is always easier than choosing the right. You have to stay both in the human, and in the love of the other, which must also pass through the love of self. And that, we are the only ones to know how to bring it.”

Zoé Adjani had to grow up with an absent father. In Paris Matchthe young woman had broached this painful subject: “I hold most of my character from my dear dad who was very rebellious, very angry, an anger that ended up devouring him. He couldn’t find a way to exteriorize her and she turned against him. With my aunt Isabelle, we talk about him, sometimes, when we succeed, she like me. It’s not simple. Lots of twisted stories… I lost my father, she lost her little brother.”