The first has been Marion Cotillard’s companion since 2007 and the father of her two children, Marcel (born in 2011) and Louise (born in 2017). The second has shared Charlotte Gainsbourg’s life since 1991, and gave her three children: Ben (born in 1997), Alice (born in 2002) and Jo (born in 2011). Between Guillaume Canet and Yvan Attal, the complicity is immediately obvious. On display at “A roll of the dice“, the two actors confided this week to Madame Figaroon their life “husband of”. A label that is sometimes hard to bear!
“I want to murder!”
Guillaume Canet explains to our colleagues this January 19, 2024: “Yvan and I have so much in common that we immediately found each other. It was long before I knew you: but I loved My wife is an actress. The cinema scene where he sinks into his chair because his wife plays an intimate scene with an actor, I experienced it in my flesh!”
And Yvan Attal responds, in relation to this film released in 2001: “You know that when I wrote this scene, I hadn’t yet experienced it“It happened a little later for Yvan Attal, he admits: “there was the screening of Antichrist in Cannes (it was in 2009, editor’s note)… Imagine me, in my too-tight shirt, with Charlotte masturbating on the big screen.”
These moments of embarrassment remain occasional for the two men, who recount another detail that bothers them more often: that of being called by the name of their partner. For his part, the older of the two admits: “When I’m in a hotel and a guy says to me, ‘Hello Mr. Gainsbourg’, I want to murder!”
“The newbie who calls me Monsieur Cotillard…”
As for the youngest, he decided to exorcise it by turning it into a good joke, in his film “Rock’n’roll” (released in 2017, where he invited Johnny Hallyday, in particular). He tells Madame Figaro: “I heard so much bullshit that I wanted to re-appropriate this story, to laugh with the public about what he was projecting of us: Marion who lives in Los Angeles, the marketer who calls me Monsieur Cotillard… “
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