We know it. Perfection does not exist even if some people come close to it. Julie Gayet is one of them. At 52 years old, the accomplished actress can boast of having quite a career in the world of comedy and theater. After having played for big names in the seventh art like Costa-Gavras, Agnès Varda, Patrice Lecomte, Philippe Lellouche and Bertrand Tavernier, she recently played the historical character Olympe de Gouges in the TV film Olympe, a woman in the revolution which she co-directed with Mathieu Buisson.
But Julie Gayet is not just comedy. Beyond her roles as an actress, producer and director, she also sang songs, notably on the title With you by Marc Lavoine in 2012. She is also the founder of the Twin Sisters festival in Rochefort since 2020 and an outspoken activist in the fight for women's rights. If this arm-length CV well represents the qualities of Julie Gayet, the latter, mother of two boys born from her marriage to the filmmaker Santiago Amigorena, also has faults. At least one anyway.
Julie Gayet and clumsiness become one
While the magazine Paris Capital described Julie Gayet as refined, passionate, committed and therefore almost flawless in June 2017, the wife of François Hollande, with whom she refuses to give in to a specific temptation, quickly cut off the journalists she had in front of her: “I am the most distracted and clumsy girl on eartha walking disaster that takes place between Pierre Richard and Buster Keaton.“
Julie Gayet then shared a situation that occurred in Berlin to illustrate her remarks: “After a chic dinner in a restaurant, I accidentally drag the tablecloth and all the dishes which crash to the ground with a crash in front of the appalled guests. Another time in Toronto, I hit a glass door in the face, almost breaking my nose. As for the Cannes Film Festival, I broke a heel on the red carpet, which meant I found myself barefoot, at the top of the steps, with my shoes in my hand.“Indeed, Julie Gayet has no shortage of examples…
