Sandrine Bonnaire looks back on her parents’ financial difficulties in A Sunday in the Country

Sunday November 10, a new episode ofA Sunday in the countryside highlights the life of actress Sandrine Bonnaire. She remembers her unusual childhood.

This Sunday, November 10, a new issue ofA Sunday in the countryside brings together three new personalities. Star pastry chef Christophe Michalak, musician and actor Emmanuel Moire, and actress Sandrine Bonnaire. Installed in the attic of the house, Frédéric Lopez and his guests looked back on each person’s childhood. Sandrine Bonnaire recounts with great irony and perspective her family adventure populated by her ten brothers and sisters, her extroverted mother and her first experiences in the cinema.

“My family was so broke…“: Sandrine Bonnaire remembers in A Sunday in the countryside on his childhood marked by financial difficulties

“Even if I had wanted to, I couldn’t have taken theater or dance classes, my family was so broke it couldn’t have been possible“, explains the 57-year-old actress on the pontoon in the garden of the plateauA Sunday in the countryside. Indeed, Sandrine Bonnaire grew up in a family of 11 children. She was raised by a mother whom she describes as whimsical. Seventh of her siblings, Sandrine Bonnaire remembers the atmosphere “noisy“of her family life and her parents’ difficulties in differentiating between all their daughters:”Our parents had the good idea to give almost all of us first names with ‘ine’, they got the name wrong each time ‘Corinne’, ‘Sabine’, ‘Jocelyn’. It’s also a lot of joy in life” she confides.

“A chalet, without water and electricity” : Sandrine Bonnaire reveals the conditions in which she grew up in A Sunday in the countryside

Born in Allier, she spent part of her childhood there. At 7 years old, his family moved to Montlhery. “My father and my uncle had built a chalet, without water or electricity. We were a little gypsy, a little gypsy. We only washed once a week, my mother washed us in a tub, there were 4.5 of us in it… We didn’t cope very well. At school, people knew we lived like that. But at the same time we remained dignified, my parents were very courageous. There was real freedom. Maybe the boldness I had comes from that” tells the actress to Frédéric Lopez. She continues: “Later we moved to Grigny in an apartment, there was water and electricity and light in the ceiling and for me it was absolute chic.“A touching and funny story of which the actress seems very proud today.