Flagship face of cinema, Thierry Lhermitte has chained successful roles during his career. We knew him as a great flirt with the character of Popeye in the saga Les Bronzés, volunteer of SOS distress friendship in Santa Claus is a garbage or doctor on television in the series Doc Martin.
Since the 2010s, the actor has distinguished himself above all as the father (and grandfather) of a family in several comedies. My family already adores you, La Finale with Rayane Bensetti or recently Happy Retirement, the film of which is broadcast this July 15 on M6. Sharing the poster with Michèle Laroque in this feature film released in 2019, they play a couple in their sixties eager to taste the joys of retirement in Portugal.
However, their plans do not go as planned since their daughter (played by Nicole Ferroni) broke up with her spouse. The perfect opportunity for this mother to entrust her children to their grandparents to take care of them. But the senior couple embodied by the duo Laroque-Lhermitte do not seem to agree, determined to escape their family responsibilities and enjoy peaceful days on the Iberian Peninsula.
Before discovering the rest of their adventures in the second part directed by Fabrice Bracq, on July 22, 2022 at the cinema, Thierry Lhermitte confided in his life as a grandfather on a daily basis. In a relationship with his wife Hélène since the 1970s, the father of Victor, Astrée and Louise admitted to being “a little distant” with his grandchildren in the pages of Télé 7 jours in 2021. “I am not a sweet grandpa! “, conceded the sexagenarian before specifying. “It remains important for me to share good times with my grandchildren”, relayed by Here.
Interviewed on July 3 on Europe 1, Thierry Lhermitte gave news of his three grandchildren. “I have two who are in Canada, who are nine and under a year old, and one who is in France who is nineteen”, and to discuss his role alongside them. “We are very tolerant, we only have the good sides of things, not the responsibility of raising our grandchildren. It’s easier”.
An emblematic figure of cinema, Chantal Ladesou is renowned for her roles in family comedies. The Aristos, How to kill your mother… It reveals itself as hilarious as it is touching. Not surprising to find her in 2016 in the skin of a cool grandmother in What is this family!? Then, in the other two parts, What is this grandma (released in 2019) and What is this grandpa (2021).
When she is not filming, Chantal Ladesou spends her free time with her family with her husband Michel Ansault. Parents of three children, Alix (who died at 21 in an accident), Julien and Clémence, they are grandparents of five grandchildren. But, what does the family life of the actress, humorist and member of the Big heads look like?
“I am quite classic as a grandmother. I am very grandma cake”, confided the actress Chantal Ladesou facing Michel Cymes in Antidote, in April 2021 on France 2. The one who “loves to make them laugh” does not sulk her pleasure to share good times with the family, according to his comments relayed in Gala. “When I play with them, I play with them, that is to say I go tobogganing, I do tapass, I play with them”.
Actress Josiane Balasko is also a regular at family comedies. When she is not playing on screen with her daughter Marilou Berry, her role as mother follows her in other films such as Maman (2012), Retour chez ma mère (2016) with Alexandra Lamy, Beaux-parents (2019) or yet A trip to my mother and My very dear children (2021). But, what does his daily family life look like?
“I’m not possessive, nor intrusive, rather affectionate”, explained Josiane Balasko in Gala on her role as a mother. “Marilou is with a wonderful guy, who is an artist. I do not intervene in their story, even since I am a grandmother”. When her daughter Marilou Berry gave birth to her son Andy in November 2018, the famous actress took her role as a grandmother very seriously. “It’s a really new feeling, different from having your own child, which is flesh of your flesh, part of you.”
But, like her sidekick Thierry Lhermitte, the flagship actress of Les Bronzés does not often see her grandson, due to her busy schedule. “I see him regularly, but I don’t have time to take care of him, because I work a lot”, before confiding his fears. “And then I’m a little scared, he’s only seven months old, I’ve forgotten the gestures with babies”.