After presenting his book The Underground in Rennes, then having participated in an episode of the “Grand Échiquier”, hosted by Claire Chazal and Alex Vizorek, Sophie Marceau confided in the columns of Le Monde, whose interview was unveiled this Sunday, June 18, 2023. The actress 56 years old, one of the favorite personalities of the French enjoyed success thanks to her role in La Boum when she was only 13 years old.
Conflict with his former employer and defense of his ex!
Except that three years later, she had to pay 1 million francs (a loan of 150,000 euros that she will ask the bank, editor’s note) to Gaumont to buy out her exclusive contract. “I did it alone”. A will motivated by a need to be a free young woman and that no one can control her life. “For a long time I did not have an agent since it was Gaumont who took care of me and anyway, in this kind of conflict, there is no longer any lawyer or agent”she explained to our colleagues. “I spoke alone with Gaumont, with my own words. I first offered to fix things, and I saw that there was no possibility of fixing them”.
The reason for the conflict? He was prevented from making films other than “la Boum 2, 3, 4, 5 ad vitam aeternam… I had to do a three-day participation for Pinoteau but I also wanted to do L’Amour braque by Zulawski (1985)”. “In their eyes, it was a metic!”she said. “And then the little Sophie who will scream in an alternative film… They thought that my image was theirs. The model, sympathetic teenager of the Boom was a market value, I should not damage her They preferred to lose me than to give me freedom”.
In a relationship for almost 17 years with the filmmaker who died in 2016, (they will have a son, Vincent, born in 1995, ndr), the star will shoot for him four times: love is pointing (1985), My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days (1989), The Blue Note (1991) and Fidelity (2000).
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