PHILIP KATERINE. Author, composer, performer, actor, director or writer, Philippe Katerine is also featured in “Asterix and Obelix: The Middle Empire”, by Guillaume Canet.
On the poster of Asterix and Obelix: The Middle Kingdom, a host of actors, artists and even sportsmen. Among the guests on the screen of Guillaume Canet, Philippe Katerine. The opportunity to take an interest in the (discreet) private life of the 54-year-old singer. For ten years now, Philippe Katerine has shared his life with Julie Depardieu. The couple met for the first time in 2008, through the magazine Télérama, then, two years later, the two actors found themselves on the set of a film by Thierry Jousse, I am a no man’s land.
At that time, Julie Depardieu has just lost his brother, Guillaume. “I remember going to Dole, where the filming was taking place, without expecting anything. I didn’t have a strong desire to exist, I was there and not there at the same time. The loss of someone puts you on the ground, makes you question everything. I thought: ‘After this, I can no longer allow myself to desire. The very idea of existing really disgusted me,’ “recalls the actress in the Gala columns.
And to go one better, about his first impression of Philippe Katerine: “I said to myself: ‘hey, this guy is nice'”. And indeed, between the two artists, everything went quickly: in 2011, the following year, their first child was born, named Billy. Then, in 2012, their second son, Alfred. And if the Philippe Katerine/Julie Depardieu couple may seem atypical, a relative explained to Le Parisien in November 2020 that “these are two rather whimsical personalities, but Julie is much more demonstrative and hyperactive. He is quite far from the image that we gives from him and that he gives. He is posed and interior”. Moreover, proof of the good understanding of the family in general, Gérard Depardieua “successful grandpa” in the words of the singer to Here, appeared in one of Philippe Katerine’s last clips, Blondtaken from his latest album, confessions.