Laura Smet, French actress and director, is the daughter of two icons of the French artistic scene: Johnny Hallyday, the legendary rocker, and the actress Nathalie Baye. This prestigious ancestry gave him a unique family background, but also a special childhoodmarked by the omnipresence of the media.
Despite the weight of this heritage, Laura Smet has been able to forge her own path in the world of cinema. She made her screen debut in 2003 in the film “Impatient Bodies”a performance that earned him a nomination for the César for Most Promising Actress.
Laura Smet recounts the time she was traumatized by her father
If Johnny Hallyday is the idol of millions of French speakers, he remains a human being like all of us, with his character and his flaws. Despite his repeated absences due to his work, he always took his role as dad very seriously. However, Laura Smet remembers a particular moment that traumatized her. She told a significant episode that she experienced with Johnny Hallyday while they were both riding in the singer’s Ferrari to attend a U2 concert.
David Hallyday’s sister remembered: ” My father sometimes scared me a littleespecially when he wasn’t speaking,” before adding : “I had complete confidence because he was my father and at the same time I still felt something a little dangerous. » One thing is certain, Laura Smet could release a collection of all the extraordinary anecdotes experienced with her father.
The actress confides in her life since the death of Johnny Hallyday
Eddy Mitchell’s goddaughter recently spoke in a podcast entitled “The Life of Nelly” broadcast on France Infowhere she exchanges with an unconditional fan of the interpreter of” Light the fire “. This program pays tribute to the singer when he should have celebrated his birthday this Saturday, June 15. As a reminder, Johnny Hallyday died on December 5, 2017 from lung cancer.
On this occasion, Laura Smet recounted in detail how she felt when she saw her father’s remains. During this interview, she also confided thathe often flees the capital to recharge your batteries in your home in Cap Ferret: “Since my father died, I no longer like Paris, I don’t know what’s due to it, this city makes me sad. Which is not the case when I’m facing the sea.”
Laura Smet provides surprising details about her father’s remains
Still during this interview, David Hallyday’s sister made surprising revelations, and remembers not without emotion the day she found herself face to face with her dad’s remains. It must be said that Nelly got to the heart of the matter, asking a question that no one expected. She asked : “I wanted to know what your dad was dressed when he left, do you know?” »
To which Laura Smet responded without filter: “He was dressed in a suit, he was very handsome. I’ll tell you something. I had never seen a dead person before (…), when I got home I said to myself: ‘but he’s not my father, he’s much smaller’.“ Laura says the singer wore a black suit and a white shirt, and adds that he was “very handsome, very elegant, styled as usual, but the body much smaller because my father’s soul was immense”.
