Cécile de France stars in the film In his lifetime since Wednesday, November 24, 2021. In this feature film by Emmanuelle Bercot, the actress plays Eugenie, a member of the nursing staff confronted every day with life and death. And if this new film project will make many spectators think, the actress, she thought more of her children by shooting some poignant scenes.
During a strong emotional sequence, Eugenie asks Benjamin – the character of Benoît Magimel, condemned by cancer – to think about the people for whom it is essential. But Cécile de France, in all this? “To my children, I guess, she explains in the pages of Psychologies. But they are the ones who make me grow. My eyesight is going down, sometimes I need their new eyes to see things. Symbolically, that means that it is there, I am already behind. I have something to share with them, but it is they who are in the place: they have taken up the torch […] I like the idea of getting old and giving way to the next ones. “
It’s a job, but I give them a lot of freedom
The 46-year-old actress is a mother of two. She is installed in a discreet village in the north of France with the musician Guillaume Siron, whom she has loved since 1997 – they met at the Higher School of Theater Arts and Techniques -, but also with Lino and Joy, 14 and 9 years old. The arrival of these two new beings in his life has, inevitably, turned his life upside down. “With a child, we let go of ourselves, specifies the Belgian actress. The attention is focused on a being who depends on us, for whom we have total responsibility, and you know that even a lack of love can cause a deep imbalance in him. So we have to be careful […] It’s a job, but I give them a lot of freedom. Because I trust them. And I think the best weapon against all external dangers is to let that self-confidence flourish, from early childhood.… “
Find the full interview with Cécile de France in the magazine Psychologies, n ° 428 of November 23, 2021.