Back all week on the career of Jane Birkin, who left us this Sunday, July 16, 2023. Elodie Suigo had met the singer and actress in the summer of 2021. In this second episode, Jane Birkin returns to the song “Jane B. ”
She was the favorite Englishwoman of the French: Jane Birkin died at the age of 76, Sunday July 16 in Paris, after leaving her mark on song and cinema. In a series of interviews on franceinfo, with Élodie Suigo in the World of Élodie broadcast, in July 2021, the actress and singer, had returned to the highlights of her life with five striking songs. Today, back to “Jane B.”
>> Find the full interview with Jane Birkin on franceinfo
france info: Jane B., this title sticks to your skin. Tell us about it.
Jane Birkin: It’s the one I like the most. More … than I love you…me neither because it’s so pure. I thought it was so great to have noted the pages of my passport: Blue eyes, brown hair. All the content was a little portrait of me, like a passport. And since it was on Chopin, it was romantic. It’s so pretty. Sometimes people don’t know it’s Chopin. A while ago, we were playing it somewhere and someone said, “Oh, it’s Jane B.!“, I replied no, it was Chopin.
When you meet Serge Gainsbourg, is it love at first sight?
“Serge Gainsbourg, it was such a find, it was a man’s delight.”
Jane Birkinat franceinfo
No. And maybe that’s why it lasted longer because I was discovering it little by little. At first, he terrified me. He had a sly look and when I arrived to do the filming, I found him very distant.
So he had dinner at Régine’s where there was a dance floor. I pulled it to go dancing. He was stepping on my feet. I said to myself : “Happiness. It means he can’t dance, he’s clumsy. Basically, this arrogance is to hide such a shy, terribly candid person“.