“I don’t like Deneuve very much,” says Catherine Deneuve herself. The actress, who trusts Pierre Lescure, on the France 2 program Nice gesturetells how she abandoned her real name, Catherine Dorléac, to become Catherine Deneuve, borrowing her mother’s maiden name.
“It’s for her, for my sister. It was my mother who said that, because for the movie [Les Demoiselles de Rochefort]He said ‘we can’t say Dorléac Dorléac,'” he explains and adds, “but I prefer my name, Dorléac.”
“Maybe I regret not taking it back.”
The actress chose this name in 1960, before sharing the bill with her sister in the film The doors slamthen in The ladies of Rochefort in 1967.
“To make a movie together again”
Catherine Deneuve and her sister Françoise Dorléac, who died in a car accident in 1967, began their film careers in the early 1960s. Françoise Dorléac is the heroine of The man from Rio by Philippe de Broca in 1964 and Soft skin by François Truffaut, then by Dead end by Roman Polanski. The ladies of Rochefort It is his penultimate film.
“Do you think you would have continued in this profession if your sister was there,” asks Pierre Lescure. “So I don’t know at all,” responds Catherine Deneuve. “Sometimes I can be optimistic and say to myself ‘but yeah, maybe we could have made a movie together much later…’
The actress will soon play Bernadette Chirac in the film bernadettein theaters October 4.
Source: BFM TV
