Cdenim shirt, black pants, jay-colored hair falling on her shoulders, a squeezed lemon in front of her. She waits for us, incognito. Only a few glances exchanged discreetly between a handful of customers at neighboring tables betray her popularity. For 22 years, and her release from Star Academy, Nolwenn Leroy has taken a special place in the hearts of the French. And not only the Bretons to whom she paid a vibrant tribute in Bretonan album, a double diamond disc, at the beginning of the 2010s. Now, it is a completely different refrain that this 41-year-old mother is defending: that of the new TF1 saga in which she plays the leading role, Broceliande. All roads definitely seem to lead to Brittany. “I don’t mind being the Breton on duty…” she jokes.
The pranksters would have imagined a meeting in a crêperie in the Montparnasse district, in front of a bowl of cider, but it is at the Amour hotel, a nicely trendy place on the 9the arrondissement of Paris, that Nolwenn Leroy has arranged to meet us. Quite simply, she argues, because it is in this corner of the capital, at the foot of the Butte Montmartre, that she found refuge when fame took her, at the age of 21, from Auvergne, where she lived with her mother and sister, to the spotlight.
A few years ago, when I read the interviews I had given, I told myself that I was deeply boring, that it didn’t suit me. […] Read more
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