“Don’t act like Sarah Bernhardt! » his paternal grandmother told him. “How right she was. As a little girl, I had the unfortunate tendency to play comedy all the time,” the actress admits today. When she opened up about her career plans, her grandmother was direct: “It’s wonderful, my darling. But you have to take the nickname Sandra Bernhardt. It will work for you. I’m sure of it. » Sandrine Kiberlain did not follow his advice, she kept her first and last name.
On the other hand, she slipped into the skin of her heroine, in front of Guillaume Nicloux’s camera, since she plays in the cinema the woman who is considered the first world star: “Sarah Bernhardt, the Divine”. Sarah Bernhardt was the actress of excess. Today, it is difficult to find an equivalent in terms of notoriety. We would have to add up several personalities: Lady Gaga + Beyoncé + Taylor Swift + Rihanna, but with this explosive cocktail of free women with strong temperaments, we would probably still be far from the count. The one who played both male and female roles, who loved dying on stage and mastered the art of rolling her eyeballs back in her head, was adored like no other. She continued theater tours in the United States in a Pullman train customized to her taste, cook, linens and silverware included.
At Sarah Bernhardt’s house, all of Paris gathered and paraded, glass of champagne in hand, among
