At 44, Laetitia Casta is the delight of the great directors of French cinema. His schedule proves it. Over the past two years, the actress has taken part in four films, including the next, Coma by Bertrand Bonello, is expected in theaters in November. As Laetitia is not the type to twiddle her thumbs, she will go up in parallel on the boards for the play Clara Haskil, prelude and fugue, while ensuring other shootings. Among them, The consentadaptation of Vanessa Springora’s book by Vanessa Filho and Happiness is for tomorrowa feature film by a certain Brigitte Sy… Her mother-in-law!
Brigitte Sy is none other than the mother of Louis Garrel, actor whom Laetitia Casta married in Corsica in 2017 and with whom she had her one-year-old son Azel. Where some women would be cautious about working with a stepmother, the 44-year-old actress is far from there. It would even be quite the opposite:Beyond the fact that she is Louis’s mother, she is a woman with incredible talent, and from the first meeting, I forgot that she was my mother-in-law..”
No animosity between the two women, just a lot of love and respect, to the delight of Louis Garrel: “Between us there was something strange and very beautiful from woman to woman, a kind of transfer. She wrote me a letter that really touched me.“For sure, Brigitte Sy validates her as a mother:”She was telling me about the mother that I am and try to be. There is one thing in my life that I may have managed to do, and that is to link my artistic work and my role as a mother. I haven’t finished, it’s not won yet but it took a big place in my life.“
Laetitia Casta is an accomplished mom. From her relationship with Stéphane Sednaoui was born Sahteene, 20 years old. Then came Orlando, 15, and Athena, 12, whom she had with Stefano Accorsi. Then the meeting with Louis Garrel, the crush, the wedding in 2017 in Corsica, an island as beautiful as Laetitia, and the birth of Azel on March 17, 2021. Children who make her happy every day as she confided to Marie Claire Last year : “I am the head of a tribe. Four children. Four ! This number four makes me laugh. It’s not bad, is it ? It fascinates me, even though I knew it would be like that. Very young, at 12, I had my little sister in my arms. I have an ease in carrying life, I like it.” By far, his most beautiful role.