Fanny Ardant was a true white knight for Sandrine Kiberlain in her early days. The actress, who is now 56 years old, has great admiration for her nineteen-year-old elder since the gesture of protection that the latter showed in the early 1990s during theater rehearsals.
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The two actresses then played in the play As you want medirected by Luigi Pirandello, when another actor in the cast, who played the father of Sandrine Kiberlain’s character, inflicted real slaps on the actress, then aged around twenty.
The “courage” of Fanny Ardant to defend Sandrine Kiberlain
“I was a young actress, and the actor who played my father in the story – I don’t even remember his name, I think I wanted to forget it, he was a German actor – must have slap me during rehearsals. The actors obviously pretend to slap each other, you’re not going to slap a young actress fifteen times or anyone,” she recalled to Pierre Lescure in the show Nice gesturebroadcast on France 2 on November 24. An obvious fact which, obviously, was not obvious for the actor…
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For Fanny Ardant, witness to the scene, it was too much! “Fanny arrived on set, she was fed up. I didn’t dare say: “Stop slapping me,” explained Sandrine Kiberlain. She came and told him, “Stop slapping her or I’ll slap you.” The guy looked at us, and then he slapped me again. She came and slapped him. »
Sandrine Kiberlain has never forgotten this episode and says she is inspired by the “courage” of her elder sister: “I was protected by her. She is an example of a whole woman. » If, since then, the two actresses have not met again on stage or in the cinema, they have remained accomplices.
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