It is a candle more than Josiane Balasko suffers this Friday, April 15. The actress turns 72. At the top of her form and her career, she is just as fulfilled in love thanks to George Aguilar, her husband. Their meeting took place in 2003, a love at first sight followed by a marriage in 2007. And unlike other stars dreaming of castle life for this very special day in life, Josiane Balasko and George Aguilar went to the simpler, or almost.
In an interview with the magazine Gala last September, Josiane Balasko reflected on her love affair with George Aguilar, actor met on the set of the film Frenchman’s son in Brazil. Several obvious signs later, the actors begin their story and move up a gear: marriage. It was in the United States in the city of San Antonio in Texas that they said ‘yes'”to avoid paperwork“, said Josiane Balasko: “We each bought a license for 50 dollars at the town hall, I showed my passport, he showed his license, we swore we were divorced.“For a handful of tickets, they were married and the party continued in an unusual location for such an event:”We had a party in a pizzeria!“
If the atmosphere was probably as hot as the oven, it was far from being cooked at all when they met. Playing a couple for the cinema inevitably brings people together, but at the time, at the end of the 1990s, Josiane Balasko was anything but single. She shares the life of the artist Philippe Berry, brother of Richard Berry and father of her children Marilou and Rudy, and chooses to end their marriage.
Fate pushed Josiane Balasko and George Aguilar towards each other, especially the pitch of the film: “We [Fanny Ardant et Josiane Balasko, ndlr] were lost in the jungle and we came across a tribe that took us in. At the head of the tribe was an Indian chief. There was a ceremony that was organized, we were absolutely unaware of it. During this ceremony, I found myself married to the Indian chief and Fanny was married to the shaman. And the Indian chief happened to be George.“A leader who has become the leader of his heart.