Many celebrities have rubbed shoulders at younger ages on school benches: we think in particular of the controversial lawyer Juan Branco and the minister Gabriel Attal, the actors Christian Clavier and Thierry Lhermitte, the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron and comedian Fabrice Éboué, or even to Patrick Balkany and Michel Sardou. But comedian Anne Roumanoff also knew many celebrities in his childhood! Guest of Daily this Friday, December 1, 2023, the fifty-year-old, who had already revealed several years ago to have been the classmate of the politician Jean-François Copé, revealed to have also met a star of French song: Mylène Farmer !
Come to promote her new one-woman show Life experienceAnne Roumanoff, 58 years old, gave an astonishing anecdote: that of having been the classmate of the most bankable French singer. The two women actually took acting lessons together more than forty years ago, long before one broke into comedy, and the other into singing: “In theater classes, those who succeeded, I would never have believed (…) I was really very young when I took theater classes. I was 16 years old. And (Mylène Farmer) did a scene from Chekhov with a little tin soldier in water. It was interesting, everyone was watching. But if someone had told me that five years later this girl would be at Bercy, I would have said: But of course !” she remembers.
She also rubbed shoulders with Vincent Lindon
In these same theater classes, Anne Roumanoff and Mylène Farmer rubbed shoulders with another French star, who broke into the cinema, and became one of the sacred monsters of our time: Vincent Lindon. And at the time, Anne Roumanoff had not bet on him in any way, and was convinced that he would never have a career, for a very specific reason: he was a stutterer. A stutter that the actor was able to deal with, and which in no way prevented him from conquering the hearts of millions of French people over the decades: “Poor guy, he’s never going to achieve anything. I think I’m not perceptive at all (…) In fact, we can’t know!” she laughed.