In 1995, Mylène Farmer released the album Anamorphosed. Composed of twelve titles, this disc was entirely written by the artist and composed by Laurent Boutonnat. Recorded in Los Angeles after the failure of the film Giorgino, this album was very different from the singer’s previous records, featuring a more rock sound and brighter lyrics inspired by Sogyal’s The Tibetan Book of Life and Death. Rinpoche. Carried by hits like “California” or “XXL”, it was one of the greatest successes of the idol of a whole generation.
That year, Mylène Farmer was Michel Drucker’s guest on his show “Studio Gabriel”. At the time, the host had hired a promising young man, Benjamin Castaldi. The chronicler of the time dealt in particular with cultural outings. And that evening, he was talking about the theatrical release of the film The President and Miss Wade with Michael Douglas. “Have you seen the movie?“, asked Michel Drucker to his guest. “I saw half of the movie“, then answered Mylène Farmer a little embarrassed. “I was in the wrong session. So I walked in and walked out halfway through the movie“, confided she rather embarrassed.
If Mylène Farmer confided her undisguised embarrassment that day, this did not prevent the singer from recently being one of the stars of the last Cannes Film Festival. The artist was indeed chosen to be part of the jury chaired by Spike Lee. The most famous redhead of French song has a tumultuous history with the seventh art. As a child, little Mylène Gautier dreamed of being an actress. It is moreover towards the profession of actress that her hopes converge. After stopping her studies in Terminale class, she turned to the Cours Florent. Daniel Mesguich is her teacher and she rubs shoulders with Vincent Lindon, Isabelle Nanty or Thierry Mugler who will make her play the role of Zézette in an adaptation of the play Santa Claus is a junk.
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