Since January 10, 2025, Guillaume Canet has been appearing inTo lifea Netflix film that he produced and co-wrote, in which he stars alongside Stéphane Caillard, Nassim Lyes and Zita Hanrot. He plays Franck Lazareff, a former GIGN who aspires to a quiet life. But one day, his pregnant wife Léo is kidnapped. He has four hours to save her. Marion Cotillard’s companion plays a very physical role for Netflix, in which he does multiple stunts. Wednesday January 8, 2025, guest of LegendGuillaume Pley’s show on YouTube, he looks back on this crazy filming experience, but also on his career and his private life.
“Like all couples, we go through periods” : Guillaume Canet on his relationship with Marion Cotillard
For 1h30, Guillaume Canet, usually so discreet, tells his story in complete privacy. From his childhood, through his horse riding accident, to his first film roles in Barracuda by Philippe Haïm, The Beach by Danny Boyle, or even Vidocq of Pitof (of whom he is not a big fan), until his marriage to Diane Kruger, he avoids nothing. A union which fizzled out after three years. But in 2007, the young actor and director began a romance with Marion Cotillard, his on-screen companion in Children’s games four years earlier. Since then, despite numerous rumors of separation, the couple has lasted. “Like all couples, we go through periods that the tabloids have not stopped themselves from highlighting. Not necessarily always in good times, sometimes they are four or five months late, he quips. […] We manage our relationship as best we can. Already with the children, we try not to work at the same time. […] We organize ourselves and we do it quite well. I think so far our children are pretty well balanced. As long as it lasts”. But if he manages to alternate work and family time well, the actor admits to sometimes having difficulty with fame. “I’m very happy not to be better known”he admits, happy not to be one of those stars that we chase in the street. However, the fact of having notoriety and sharing your life with a woman who is equally, if not even more famous, is not always easy to manage.
This incident that occurred between Guillaume Canet and a paparazzi at the birth of his son
“We had one person, with Marion. It went very, very far. Too far. It was quite worrying even because there were threats. We had to warn the authorities so that it would stop . It’s always creepy.”he confides. Worse, in 2011, when their son Marcel was born (the couple also have a daughter, Louise, born in 2017), a paparazzi went well beyond the limits. “When we interfere too much in our private lives, it’s complicated. When you have a guy who climbs the wall of your house and who comes to your house when your son has just been born to take photos of you with your son… It happened. It goes far away because I’m going crazy, I see red. It goes away and you end up with the police at your house, the day your son is born. live this”. This muscular exchange, filmed by the photographer’s son, had been made public. To believe The Pointin October 2012, “The paparazzi and his son had filed a complaint against Mr. Canet, the first for ‘violence’ and the second for ‘theft’ and ‘violence’. The proceedings were dismissed by the Versailles public prosecutor’s office, which then prosecuted the two men for ‘slanderous denunciation’ During the hearing in July, prosecutor Naïma Rudloff requested nine months’ suspended prison sentence against the photographer and three months’ suspended prison sentence against her son. Both were finally released and Guillaume Canet, “who claimed 5,000 euros in damages in this case, was dismissed by the Versailles criminal court”.
