In case you don’t know, Louis Garrel – who celebrates his 41st birthday this Friday – and Léa Seydoux are very close. They have already experienced a lot of things together, such as unfortunately the disappearance of their friend Gaspard Ulliel, but also numerous film shoots, they who played opposite each other for the first time in the cinema in The beautiful person. Besides, did they already know each other before this film? “Yes of course, it was Louis who made me want to make films!”replied the actress a few weeks ago in an interview for The Unrockuptiblesin which Laetitia Casta’s husband also participated.
“I was very young, I was 18 years old. I was coming out of a very chaotic adolescence, I didn’t really know what I was going to do with my life. I met Louis, and it was as if I saw myself in him. He suddenly embodied something in which I could project myself. However, Louis and I are very different, but strangely he gave birth to a desire for cinema in me that I didn’t have access to. I had never seen him in the cinema before, he was a student at the Conservatoire, I had a rather vague desire to become an actress, so I was casting for projects that didn’t interest me much…“, she then elaborated.
Louis Garrel, “he was a little arrogant”
Before revealing: “I stalked him a bit. I wanted to talk to him but he was a little distant. I was getting him a little drunk I think. He was a bit arrogant back then! (laughs).“
Louis Garrel remembered “of a reserved young girl whose shyness was really very apparent. She turned red when she spoke to you. A few years later, when I saw her work, I thought of the relevant theory that I a friend said: some actors or actresses do this job to show themselves and others to disappear. Léa is one of those who do this to hide..” This friend in question is Rebecca Marder, who as a reminder is today in a relationship with Benjamin Lavernhe, who revealed himself to the general public with his role as Pierre in the comedy The meaning of the party (2017) by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano.
