The cinema icon remains a woman, a mother and a grandmother. In an interview published in Point of view This April 30, his son Christian Vadim reveals his adorable nickname and his childhood memories.
There are such large stars that it is difficult to consider them as normal human beings, leading a life, all trivial. If the daily life of Catherine Deneuve is often fantasized, both because of the mystery she maintains around her private life, and the greatness of her career. However, the 81 -year -old actress had two children, Chiara Mastroianni, born of the Union between Catherine Deneuve and the Italian actor, Marcello Mastroianni, and Christian Vadim, son of the director and screenwriter Roger Vadim.
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How, under these conditions, not to embrace an acting career in turn? Like his half-sister, Christian Vadim has become an actor, and is currently appearing in the successful television series Tomorrow belongs to us. If he entrusts Point of view That his parents did everything to offer him a normal childhood, certain events came to unravel this bubble. “When my mother was in a relationship with Marcello Mastroianni, it was a difficult period. I remember a walk when my sister Chiara was a baby, where we had to run to escape the paparazzi, ”he recalls.
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So growing up in a family of artists brings a more original education – “My mother taught me rigor, my father, fantasy. These are qualities that they sometimes exchanged, ”he recalls – the benchmarks of a child are nonetheless upset by their particular rhythm of life. “We had to relearn how to live together on each return. It was not easy, especially when you are a child. But my mother has always protected me, ”he analyzes, recognizing.
If there is one period during which being the son of two great actors was a positive point, it is in adolescence. “There were always lots of friends and we laughed a lot. I remember giggles with Johnny Hallyday, endless lunches where Marcello Mastroianni and my father always finished on a very watered, happy and playful note, “he recalls. Unusual memories … just like its first nightclub outing. “I did not perceive them like stars. The first time I went to a box was at the Elysée-Matignon with my mother. I was 17 years old. I see my father to chat with Serge Gainsbourg installed on the piano. At the time, I did not measure that I should have stayed and interact with them. Like any kid my age, I only thought to join the dance floor to get closer to girls. ”
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The nickname given by his grandchildren
Today, it’s the turn of her three children, Igor, Lou and Mona, to build memories with their very famous grandmother. A role that seems to be very close to her, and which she strives to accomplish far from the cameras and the voyeuristic eye of the public. However, no question that this new life makes it feel older. “Like many grandmothers, my mother did not want to be called so. For my children, she is therefore manou. I find it very cute, ”reveals Roger Vadim.
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