Knowing how to say no: this is a lesson that Vanessa Paradis has learned. In 1990, she was only 16 years old when she received the César Award for Most Promising Actress for Noce Blanche by Jean-Claude Brisseau. And there, everything changes: proposals abound, the pile of scenarios piles up. "When the movie came out, I started getting nice articles about me, not mocking or insulting, because that was really the case before. This film has changed a lot of things, "says the main interested in front of Pierre Lescure, in the cultural program "Beau Geste" broadcast on France 2, April 23.
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"I wanted there to be three of us"
The young actress refuses, for example, the role that Jacques Doillon wants to offer her in The Little Criminal. And will even say no, years later, to one of the most cult roles in French cinema.
"It's quite tricky for actresses, if I tell you the names... The biggest is Amélie Poulain. (...) Anyway, after, the roles belong to those who interpreted them and Audrey Tautou is absolutely divine in this role, "begins Vanessa Paradis, currently on the bill of Maman at the Théâtre Edouard VII. "Obviously I liked the script, obviously I wanted to work with [Jean-Pierre] Jeunet. But I had just had my daughter and I was going to make my fourth album (Bliss, editor's note) for which I started writing songs... And then, I wanted us to be three - at the time we were three, my son was not yet born. I had a little one who was six months old. I didn't want to be separated. It was a reason for life. And I thought, "I would never regret it. Life is more important than a movie." I say that because I was very, very spoiled in terms of proposals and I had been enjoying success for ten years."
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After the birth of her two children, Lily-Rose and Jack Depp, fruit of her union with Johnny Depp, Vanessa Paradis was a more discreet time on screen and on the airwaves. His companion at the time established himself as a more mainstream actor. Tim Burton's darling played Jack Sparrow in 2003 in the successful Pirates of the Caribbean saga. She became Karl Lagerfeld's absolute muse and successively embodied the Rouge Coco, the Cambon bags and New Mademoiselle for Chanel. In 2006, while Johnny Depp continues his rise in Hollywood, Vanessa Paradis participates in Louis Chedid's album, Le Soldat rose, then releases the album Divinidylle in 2007. Before reconnecting once and for all with cinema thanks to a film: L'Arnacœur (2010).