It is a discreet, intimate and open-hearted duo that was applauded on October 14, 2022 in Sainte-Maxime. Vanessa Paradis was indeed playing Mom on the boards of the city alongside her dear husband Samuel Benchetrit, the latter also being the director and author of the play. Var Morning was present during the performance and recounted the event which sold out.
Sainte-Maxime is a city that Vanessa Paradis knows well. Her parents, Corinne and the late André, owned a hotel there. It is not far from there that she and the ex and father of her two children Lily-Rose and Jack, Johnny Depp had taken up residence for a time in the early 2000s in the neighboring village of Plan-de-la-Tour. . On stage, the actress-singer gives the reply to her husband, the latter succeeding Eric Elmosnino for this tour. They embody childless parents who make a “filial transfer” on a 25-year-old young man crossed in the street.
“Leather skirt, high cheekbones, bun and voice well beyond the stamp we usually give her“Vanessa Paradis subtly embodies her character as a fifties and unfulfilled desire for a child, writes the daily. With her other half, she gives life to a couple like so many others and shines in the spotlight, despite a “nasty conjunctivitis visible from front row spectators“. It takes more to make the actress fail. After the show, the couple quietly disappeared, after a few words with relatives who were able to greet them in their dressing rooms.
If she is not a mother in the theater, she is in real life, mother and even mother-in-law of Saul Benchetrit (born of the union between Samuel Benchetrit and Anna Mouglalis) and Jules Benchetrit (fruit of the love of the director and of Marie Trintignant). In a relationship since November 2016, Vanessa Paradis and Samuel Benchetrit were married on June 30, 2018 in Saint-Siméon, east of Paris. In the past, the performer of the title Joe the cab was the companion of Florent Pagny, Lenny Kravitz, Stanislas Merhar then Johnny Depp from June 1998 to June 2012. Following her divorce, she had a relationship with Benjamin Biolay before meeting Samuel Benchetrit.