After losing a particularly expensive bracelet, actress Sandrine Bonnaire was forced to borrow a lot of money to repay it…
While she is back at the Théâtre de l’Atelier, in Paris, with the play The English Loveractress Sandrine Bonnaire plays the promotional game. Guest on the set of Telematinon October 16, she spoke about her career and her César. A prize that she will remember all her life because, that evening, she lost the bracelet she was wearing on her wrist…
In debt because of a bracelet: what happened?
On the set of the show co-hosted by Flavie Flament, Sandrine Bonnaire returned to this evening in 1984 during which she won the César for Most Promising Actress for the film To our loves. While she was happy with this reward, the moment was spoiled by the loss of the bracelet she had on her wrist. “The bracelet is with the thief or it fell off, I don’t know what happened. In any case I had to pay it back. It’s a crazy story, he wasn’t insured and I had to take out a loan on the next films since at the time, I wasn’t earning a lot of money and I had to pay it back“, she explained on the France 2 morning show.
Sandrine Bonnaire, who wore a piece of jewelry then worth the tidy sum of 100,000 francs – around 33,000 euros today – added: “There are people who congratulated me and touched me. At the time, there wasn’t as much security (…) My Caesar cost me a lot of money!” Subsequently, the 57-year-old actress won another César, in 1986, that of best actress for her role in Without roof or law.
Sandrine Bonnaire and money: her unfiltered confidences
The actress, who will return to the cinema next November in the film Eventually by Claude Lelouch, has already had the opportunity to talk about money. Guest of Jordan de Luxe in 2023, she was asked about her biggest fee for a film. “I remember it! When you earn a lot of money, you remember it. When we don’t earn much, we remember that too“, she proclaimed.
While the host asked Sandrine Bonnaire if the fee in question was around one million euros, she confirmed. “Well there you go, around that (…) I bought a house for my mother, a house for one of my sisters and a house for another sister“.
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