Since this Friday, January 3, the Comte de Monte Cristo is available on myCANAL. This adventure feature film, which has accumulated more than 9 million views at the box office, is worth rewatching without moderation. Produced by Dimitri Rassam, based on a 5-star cast, Pierre Niney in mind, this film lives up to the promise: armed duels, sword fights, love stories and of course betrayals. Le Comte de Monte Cristo is the second most seen film in cinemas, in 2024. Alongside the excellent actor, who shines once again with his stunning performance, the actors do not deserve it: Laurent Laffite, Bastien Bouillon, Vassili Schneider, Anaïs Demoustier and Anamaria Vartolomei. At 25, the young Franco-Romanian actress plays Haydée. The daughter of the last sovereign of Janina and Greek princess, has a tragic beginning in Alexandre Dumas' novel. But who played this captivating character in the version of the film with Gérard Depardieuin 1998?
Well, she's another actress with undeniable charm who lent her features to Haydée: Inès Sastre. The Spanish model played in the mini-series directed by Josée Dayan, the role of this young girl, an unwanted witness to the pasha's betrayal, and delivered into slavery. Saved by Dantès/Monte-Cristo, then played by Gérard Depardieu in this TV version, she will become a symbol of justice and fidelity. In the late 1990s, Inès Sastre was a model to follow. The sublime 1m75 brunette made her first fashion shows in 1996, for major haute couture houses, like Chanel, Vivienne Westwood and even Marc Jacobs and Jean-Paul Gaultier. At the same time, she tried her hand at cinema with Vidocq, Beyond the Clouds or even Sabrina, by Sydney Pollack. Then, becoming an ambassador for Lancôme in 1996, she saw herself becoming Haydée in the historical mini-series Le Comte de Monte Cristo.
Jean-Luc Delarue talks about his “love at first sight” with Inès Sastre
If it turns out that her film career is more chaotic than anything else, Inès Sastre continues to enjoy great popularity. And in 2009, it was her relationship with a famous television man who put her back in the spotlight. Indeed, it was that year that Jean-Luc Delarue made it official with the beautiful Spaniard. Divorced from her partner Alexandro Corrias, and mother of a little Diego, she will share the life of the former emblematic face of the French audiovisual landscape, Jean-Luc Delarue, who died in 2012. Together, they live a “thunderbolt“immediate, followed by an express romance. It's in the columns of Galain November 2009, that the famous host of It's discussed formalizes. “Inés and I became very fond of each other almost instantly. It's called love at first sight !“, he confided at the time. But a few months later, they separated. A few years later, the host died of cancer at the age of 48.
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