The French actor, son of Roger Vadim and Catherine Deneuve, also followed an artistic career like his illustrious parents. A choice that was not necessarily easy for his mother to accept for the interpreter of Alain Lehaut in the soap opera Tomorrow belongs to us. In 2023, he had already spoken on the subject in the columns of Gala : “She wanted me to have an intellectual background.” And Christian Vadim explains his mother's dissatisfaction when Roger Vadim pushed their son born in 1963 towards the cinema : “She was furious when, after taking me to law school, my father asked me to work on one of his films to make some money. But I wasn't in front of the camera, I was giving the actors the tests. And at first, it was nothing more than a student job.”.
In another interview with Philippe Vandel on the show Everything and its oppositeon France Info: “My mother was furious. It's normal, she's a mothershe was the one who raised me. She was furious because my father arrived with his arms full of a gift that she found poisonous, because she had gone to the trouble of raising me, of sending me to law school. She told me: 'If you want to become an actor, no problem, but first get a diploma.' She was more angry with my father than with me“. Coming from a large family of actors, Christian Vadim spoke this time to our colleagues at The two of us. If his loved ones watch the series in which he is currently starring? Not really. “The problem is the schedule of its broadcast. At that time, usually, my mother [Catherine Deneuve] bump and my sister [Chiara Mastroianni] also”. Speaking of his mother, the father of Igor, Lou and Mona clarified that if his children wanted to go to the cinema in turn, he would not stop them. “I could hardly do worse than my mother”he first declared. And to resume gently: “I know she reacted harshly because she was worried about me. I had started studying law, and she would have preferred that I finish them.
Christian Vadim, a present dad
“Today she sees that I'm happy, so everything is fine. I don't judge her. It's very hard to raise children,” recognized the actor. A role of dad that he takes very seriously, as he confided to The two of us. “I try to listen to their desires and their concerns but I admit that the social media dimension, with my two daughters, is complicated”, explained Christian Vadim. And to justify himself: “I’m neither on Instagram nor on TikTok, I don’t even understand the point.” “When I was their age, if I had a heartbreak, it was my mother who consoled me, not Facebook!” he concluded teasingly.
