Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu confided in us about her journey through the desert 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, This September 21, confident that she had feared she would no longer be able to ““feed his daughter”.
It is thanks to Three men and a basketthe cult film by Coline Serreau released in 1985, that the general public discovered Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu. The actress made a series of feature films in the 80s, favoring small roles in the following decades to raise her daughter. She made a notable comeback in the series Ten percent, before experiencing true consecration in the role of Sylvie Grateau in Emily in Paris (Netflix). In 1990, the actress became the mother of Taïs, the fruit of her love with the documentary filmmaker and director Richard Bean. But the couple separated three months after the birth of the baby. “It was a time when it was considered absolutely normal to have a child on your own. I did it in my life, because I separated from my daughter’s father when she was three months old,” she recalled in 8:30 p.m. on Saturday who dedicated a portrait to him on September 21. Before recognizing: “In retrospect, I don’t think it was the best idea in the world to have a child alone, at all.”
“He pulled me from the grave,” says Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu about her role in Ten percent
Independent and free, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu decided to drop everything to travel with her daughter, even if it meant playing less. A conscious choice for the actress! “If I were to keep track of all the roles I’m going to miss, I’d lose all the benefit of the journey I’ve been on. I’m not going to do that, I’m going to keep walking forward, not looking back,” she explained. But this choice was not without consequences for her career. She found herself in the middle of a desert crossing. “It was less a fear of the phone not ringing, than the fear of not being able to feed my daughter.”she confided to the cameras of France 2. “I saw her at a film screening. We found ourselves next to each other, she told me that life is difficult, that she can’t find roles, whether in the theater or in the cinema.”relates her friend, the director Cédric Klapisch. This is how Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu found herself having successful tests for the series Ten percent. “He pulled me from the grave. (…) He stopped me from going to plant cabbages”, she noted.
Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu tried to “limit the damage” with his daughter Taïs
In the columns of Release In 2022, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu had already spoken about the education of her daughter Taïs. “I made mistakes like all mothers, but I tried to limit the damage”she had acknowledged. “When you’re an actor, it can be very violent for children. I had to be a mother who is beginning to know herself,” she added.
