On October 16, Nicolas Vanier will meet his many fans for the release of his new film: It’s the world upside down. In this feature film directed by Michaël Youn, it is about a businessman whose career is at its highest before a crisis where everything collapses. With his wife and children, he moved to a farm that he had acquired in the past “for speculative purposes”. A return to nature and fundamentals far from the comfort and abundance he had known until then.
To promote this film, Michaël Youn was the guest of the show Telematin this Friday, October 11. The opportunity for the actor and father of two children (Seven, 13 years old and Stellar, 5 years old) to confide in the new life he chose almost a year ago.
Michaël Youn moved to the countryside
Michaël Youn celebrated his 50th birthday on December 2. Almost a year ago, he left Paris to settle far from the city. A choice that he had to explain after an intervention by his colleague Barbara Schulz (whom he plays opposite in the film) in the show Telematin : “I wanted to say in an interview with humor that I returned to live in the countryside and that I participated in the rebirth of rurality” he indicated before continuing his argument a little more seriously.
If he did not reveal the place where he had settled with Isabelle Funaro and their children, Michaël Youn revealed that he lived in a slightly more remote place, that he had a vegetable garden and that he put his hands in the earth: “I’m not going to tell you that I spend a lot of time on it, but I go there, I take turns taking care of it, with the mother of my children.” This decision came after an observation by the actor: “I think that Paris, like New York, like London, are not cities that are made for those over 50.“A statement with which many people should agree, he who is far from being the only one to have embraced a more natural daily life far from the hustle and bustle of the city…
