In thirty years of career, Julie Gayet has filmed with the greatest French filmmakers.
Revealed by Costa-Gavras (The Little Apocalypse), the actress subsequently stood out in front of Agnès Varda’s camera (The Hundred and One Nights by Simon Cinema), Élie Chouraqui (Liars), Michel Deville (An almost peaceful world), Patrice Leconte (My best friend) or Bertrand Tavernier (Quai d’Orsay, for which she will be nominated for the César for best supporting actress in 2014).
The stress of the Cannes Film Festival
An exemplary journey which allowed him to enrich his address book. Julie Gayet knows people, that’s a fact. And not just in France. This is the observation that Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine was able to make with our colleagues in TV Mag.
In a few days, the presenter of C to you will be present on the Croisette to host his show C to you throughout the duration of the Cannes Film Festival. An exercise she had already encountered in 2023not without a certain pressure, as she points out: “I was especially under pressure, because, in the frenzy of the festival, we had a lot of guests to accommodate.”
Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine: “We went there in commando mode”
Fortunately, the famous host was able to count on Julie Gayet’s vast network to help her in this particularly arduous task. François Hollande’s wife thus played a decisive role in bringing on the set of C to you…Michelle Yeoh. “That day, I wanted to ask Michelle Yeoh to come. Julie Gayet, who knows her very well, accompanied me and we went there in commando mode”.
Thanks to the French actressthe Malaysian star, Oscar-winner a few weeks earlier for his extraordinary performance in the stunning Everything Everywhere All At Once by Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert found herself the next day on the set of the France 5 talk show. More than an actress, Julie Gayet is also an excellent programmer!
