Life has not quite the same flavor, for Mathilde Seigner, since April 24, 2021. Yves Rénier died at the age of 78 and telling him “farewell“, she has lost one of the pillars of her existence. Time passes, of course, but it does not soothe the pain. On display in the judicial miniseries Such a long night, soon to be the heroine of the TV movie Children of the Righteous and film Rockers choir, she had for project to find her great friend on the screen.
They had collaborated on several occasions, always with joy. Mathilde Seigner had shot three times for Yves Rénier, in Chief Health Officer in 2012, in Simply cop in 2016 then in I just wanted to go home in 2017. She was preparing to repeat the experience by working with the director on the true story of a woman with Charcot’s disease. But of course, now, the idea of this project does not have the same flavor.
Without him it no longer makes sense
“It was linked to my relationship with Yves, who was more than a friend, she explains in the columns of the magazine Star TV. It was my family. Together, we could do dramatic stuff while having fun all day long. I lost a big brother, not a friend. Without him it no longer makes sense. “It’s hard to say what Yves Rénier’s last wishes would have been, and if he would have wanted the film to come to fruition without him. He liked to repeat to Mathilde Seigner, that said:”Women who move the lines, that’s for you my Mathou!“
He was one of the most important people in my life
He left a void that will never be filled. Yves Rénier died on April 24, 2021 at his home in Neuilly-sur-Seine. It was his wife, Karin, who confirmed the news to AFP. Questioned by the newspaper The Parisian, Mathilde Seigner then spoke of her immense pain. “We had known each other for twenty-five years, she explained. I don’t even remember how we met, probably with the Hallyday clan, he was part of Johnny’s gang. Yves, it was like someone in my family. My father died nine months ago at the same age. Yves adored my dad, so the first thing I said this morning when I heard was: he joined dad. He was one of the most important people in my life …“
Find the full interview with Mathilde Seigner in the Télé Star magazine of January 8, 2022.