This Monday, October 28 at 9:05 p.m., France 2 broadcasts the second part of the soap opera On the slabwhere the actress Sylvie Testud (winner of the César for Most Promising Actress in 2001 for Injuries assassinsand the César for best actress in Stupor and Tremors in 2004) plays a role. For those who would like to learn more about the actress (who is also a director), now is the time!
And to do this, let's take an interest in this interview that she gave to our colleagues of the World in December 2023. An interview which took place at the Marly café, located just opposite the Louvre Museum. Something to suit Sylvie Testud, who lives right next door! “I live with the Mona Lisa”she joked, she who shares her apartment with Eric Elmosnino, her partner for several years already.
She is joined at home every other week by her daughter Esther, born from a previous relationship. She also has a son, Ruben, who is in business school in Lyon, her mother's hometown where she does not plan to return to live for anything in the world. Because she loves Paris too much.”this city built like a succession of small villages clinging to each other, where you can walk for hours and gorge yourself on culture”.
Sylvie Testud constantly buys, rents and resells
On the other hand, she willingly left the capital to take refuge on the island of Oléron, where she kept her farmhouse purchased around twenty years ago. A feat for someone who has already moved 16 times: “I buy, I rent, I resell, it worries me when things are too fixed. Once everything is ready, once the work is finished, I start to feel suffocated.”
So avoid using the word “routine“in his presence:”You don't choose acting to be the same person from the beginning to the end of your life, but to move forward. I hate the phrase 'it's quiet.'” But on the island of Oléron, she feels good there, and therefore does not want to part with her property there. It's a little “the family home she didn't have“, as our colleagues wrote.
