Playing in Every Thing Will Be Fine, the new realization of Wim Wenders, the role of a mother who loses one of her children, run over by a car, Charlotte Gainsbourg is brought by the magazine Marie Claire to talk about his own injuries and torments. The sudden disappearance of her sister, photographer Kate Barry, in December 2013, resurfaces for this great actress whose skin-deep sensitivity has illuminated screens since her adolescence.
“I’m not a very funny person in life“, explains Charlotte Gainsbourg to try to explain why this melancholy label sticks to her skin. While specifying that she is not particularly carried towards the sinister, but that they are also beautiful roles that one proposes to her. She has always assumed her spleen and said moreover last January in Telerama that his parents had him “not learned to live happily“: the daughter of the late Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin grew up with the idea that misfortune could be seductive.
If she willingly talks to Marie Claire of his relationships with others, admits to being a little closed and recognizes his difficulty in making friends – “unlike a romantic relationship which [lui] appears much easier“- as well as her special relationship with her relatives and her family, she will refuse to speak about the mourning of her sister Kate:”I can’t speak publicly about something as serious as this … I don’t want to talk about death and fate, that’s not my thing. The disappearance of my sister is too intimate a personal event. I lost my dad twenty-four years ago, and I’m just starting to talk about it a little bit. There are people who can easily talk about mourning, but I am not.“
Charlotte Gainsbourg will nevertheless admit that having moved to New York with her companion Yvan Attal and their three children – Alice, Ben and Joe – allowed her to escape the heavy daily life linked to the death of her older sister: “I couldn’t stay any longer. I really couldn’t anymore. Here…“But don’t count on her to draw parallels between New York and Parisian lives:”It’s a bit reductive.“Today she is content to go back and forth to France to see her mother who suffers from an autoimmune disease:”All I can tell you is I miss her a lot.”
On the big screen, we will soon find it in Independence Day 2 and in the film that her lover is preparing, the working title of which is #the Jews.
Find the full interview in the magazine Marie Claire of the month of June 2015
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