Brigitte Bardot will be 90 years old this Saturday, September 28. The French actress suddenly stopped her cinema career. She was only 38 years old. BB made this decision on June 6, 1973. At that time, the actress was starring in the film The very good and very joyful story of Colinot Trousse-Chemise. She did not yet know that this feature film would be her last.
One evening, while returning to her hotel, Brigitte Bardot was with a journalist from the Dispatch from the Southcame to follow her for a report. The actress came across an old peasant woman, an extra in the film, with a goate. And this meeting will change everything.
The two women talked. The peasant woman announced to BB that her grandson’s communion was going to take place the following Sunday. For this occasion, the goat was going to be killed in order to make a big barbecue. But Brigitte Bardot took the goat from the peasant’s arms and bought the animal back in order to save its life.
The start of a commitment for Bardot
The goat is called “Colinette”in a nod to the hero of the film in which Brigitte Bardot is starring. The actress even chose to bring the little doll back to her four-star hotel to install it in her room. You can imagine the faces of the staff! But BB didn’t care, there was much more important…
The rescue of this little goat was like an electric shock for the icon. She was, anyway, tired of cinema, the star system and the life that the 7th art had imposed on her for years. The actress decided immediately to stop filming to devote herself to animal rights. And as a symbol, in his very last image in the film The very good and very joyful story of Colinot Trousse-Chemise, and so in the cinema, Brigitte Bardot has a dove in her hand.
At first, everyone thought the actress had acted on impulse. However, three years later, Brigitte Bardot went in person to Canada to defend baby seals and obtain a ban on the sale of their skin in France and Europe. People then understood that this little goat really had changed the life of the icon.
And for the record, a hinny is the name given to the cross between a stallion and a donkey. In 1982, Brigitte Bardot recorded the last song of her career, on the theme of the animal cause, entitled All animals are to be loved. The royalties were donated to the SPA and Greenpeace.
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