If she has displayed a stunning beauty since her debut, Sophie Marceau has nevertheless taken her time before accepting her physical assets. In question ? Her mother very modest about her beauty. Confidences.
On the occasion of the release of his book The undergroundon May 4, Sophie Marceau gave an interview to the magazine SHE. Among his many confidences, the star reveals her relationship to age and beauty, inherited from his deceased mother.
Sophie Marceau learned to play with her beauty
“Above all, I admire my mom, the most wonderful woman in the world“, declared Sophie Marceau in 2016 during an event organized by “The Chinese Business Club”. The actress inherited the elegant beauty of her mother Simone Morisset Maupu, who never played it. “But we told him: if you want to be a good person, don’t take advantage of it! Beauty, you shouldn’t bet on it, or use it”, confided the star about his mom. A scheme reproduced by Sophie Marceau who has remained discreet about this natural beauty that has always been there. “Don’t underline no signs of femininity in me was also a way to protect myself“, said the one who was thrust into the spotlight very young, at the age of 14, in the cult film The party in 1980.
I learned that we had the right to feel beautiful
However, it is thanks to this image career that the Frenchwoman has managed to play to her strengths. “When I became an actress, when I had fun playing characters, transforming myself, taking photos, I learned that we had the right to feel beautifulthat we sometimes even needed it to play certain roles”, she explained, adding all the same that she did not only bet on her beauty to break through. “The physical, I can’t say that I didn’t give a damn about it, but that’s not what I built myself on“, noted Sophie Marceau.
Sophie Marceau assumes her indefinite age
In this same interview, Sophie Marceau also expressed her relationship with age, since at 56, she still displays an irresistible freshness. “I don’t feel anchored in a particular age, I feel like I’m very old and very young, I find it difficult to situate myself between 15 and 60!“, she affirmed.
If she doesn’t seem concerned about her age, the mom of two isn’t afraid to confront it. “Each day brings something, or takes something away, things are not fixed. Myself, I’m escaping, I’m going to grow old, I’m going to have white hair… What do I control?”she pointed out to Raw in September 2022. “Me, I’m not afraid, I’m curious”, concluded the one who remains one of the most beautiful French stars.