In the theater, in the cinema, on TV, Laetitia Casta is to be found in all sauces. The actress is living one of the most lavish periods of her career. A success that she also owes to her family, including her children, a real point of balance, a pillar of her well-being and a source of motivation in her projects, as she explained in an interview for our colleagues from Madame Figaro.
At the head of a large blended family with her husband Louis Garrel and five children (Sahteene, 20, Orlando, 16, Oumy, 14 years old, Athena 13 years old and Azel, 1 year old), Laetitia Casta has found her place. Completely fulfilled under her different hats which make her both an accomplished artist and an attentive mother, the actress wants to remain a modern woman, in keeping with her times. Something sometimes difficult because they put a lot of pressure on him: “My children are demanding beings, who can send back to me an image that society has instilled in them, she explains. But that’s not how it happens. In this sense, they teach me to say that I am not just a mother, I am a woman. And it’s not something they grant me: it’s up to me to assert myself in front of them. Society remains patriarchal, it is through education that the world can change. But it will be long.“
A changing world that the actress sees in a good light. In addition to her strong commitment to ecology (she had signed with Juliette Binoche the tribune of The world titled Humanity’s greatest challenge), the actress has always wanted to shake things up on female stereotypes. “From the beginning, I led a fight to detach myself from the gaze of others. Very quickly, I had to explain that I was not going to change who I was. Asserting myself through the work I was doing, and not because I was a woman and had that physique” she confided.
Convictions that have taken her far since in 2021, the actress embarked on one of her most ambitious projects: Interpret the role of the famous Romanian pianist Clara Haskil on the planks.