This Wednesday featured in Tenor, in which she plays a former opera singer who discovers the talent of a young rapper, Michèle Laroque is truly an accomplished actress. At 61, she has already dabbled in everything (theater, cinema, comedy, directing, etc.) and embodies powerful roles, often human-oriented, a characteristic that she likes a lot.
But an altruism which prevents her, according to her, from getting into politics like her companion François Baroin, whose life she has shared since their meeting in the summer of 2008.Politics don’t interest me. I prefer human“, she explains in an interview with the magazine Paris Match, released this Thursday. However, she has already thought about some measures that could be part of her program.
“I would make people less afraid, yes. What hasn’t really been done lately… I believe in individual responsibility, I don’t think we forgot about the Covid because we don’t wear masks anymore. We will continue to be careful“, she launches, optimistic, to the journalists.
It must be said that the international context and the fear that has reigned for a few months particularly affect her: her mother, Doïna Trandabur, to whom she is very close, is a former Romanian dancer and violinist, who fled the Russian dictatorship. “I have been in fusion with my mother since my childhood so I felt her fear, her sadness, her guilt for having left, for never having seen her father again.explains the actress. I try to reassure her. We are very manipulable when we are afraid, so we must be careful not to accentuate the fears.“
The middle of politics, too violent for her
Perhaps she will share her remarks with her companion, but there is no question of her mentioning it: the couple is extremely discreet and only appears together on rare occasions. In 2017, “happy to cover the tracks“, she said in an interview with Current wife : “I said one day that I wouldn’t bring up the subject of our relationship again, it made me feel so good that I’m sticking to it.“
It must be said that the political environment is not easy every day, as she confided in 2010. “I am not a politician. (…) It’s a very violent environment, it destabilized me a lot. I have always been careful about what I said, for my relatives, my daughter, my parents, so as not to put them in a delicate situation. It’s not because my companion is a minister that this will change“, she let it be known. “My private life is not a show. I think there are enough people who want to talk about theirs, so that we respect mine.“, she added in the same interview for C to you. The couple has not shown themselves together since 2019 and the funeral of Jacques Chirac.