Between Evelyne Bouix and Pierre Arditi, it’s a story that lasts. However, the two actors have lived other idylls before meeting. The first had just left director Claude Lelouch, of whom she was the muse and mother of their daughter Salomé (born in 1983). The second had broken with actress Florence Giorgetti in 1978, with whom she had her son Frédéric (born in 1969).
Their first meeting dates back to the mid-1980s. At that time, Pierre Arditi was chosen to shoot in A Lord’s Profession, directed by Etienne Molinaro in 1986. A film in which he must co-star with Evelyne Bouix. It was then that the director organized a meeting between his two stars to get to know each other in his mansion in Neuilly-sur-Seine.
A memorable memory for Pierre Arditi. “You had to climb stairs and at the top, you could see the living room. As I climbed, I saw a face appear and especially eyes. They were his,” he confided, referring to Evelyne Bouix in the program En Aparté on Canal, in February 2022. For his companion, the attraction was also mutual. “I said to myself: what an adorable boy! I found him delicious,” she told the Ouest-France newspaper.
If the couple never left each other at that time, their first kiss was memorable between the two lovebirds. As Pierre Arditi confided in Nathalie Lévy’s program on Canal . “We felt that there was something between us. We touched like cats. One day, she got tired of me not declaring myself, she grabbed me by the collar of the jacket and m ‘rolled a shovel like thugs do!’, according to comments quoted by Purepeople.
After several years of living together, Evelyne Bouix and Pierre Arditi were married in 2010 at the town hall of the 6th arrondissement of Paris. From their union, the couple never had children together. “We said it to each other but not at the same time. And so it didn’t happen. I wanted to. She, no, because she didn’t know. She was afraid,” the actor slipped on Le Divan by Marc-Olivier Fogiel on France 3 in 2017.
“And when she finally made up her mind, I considered that I was too old and therefore I didn’t want to become a grandfather to my son or my daughter. And I explained to her anyway that I already had three children. My son Frédéric, his daughter Salomé and her”, admitted the actor, nine years his senior.
From their meeting to their marriage until today, Evelyne Bouix and Pierre Arditi have shared 37 years of life together. The secret to their longevity? “We are quite independent. We have tastes in common and others on which we are not at all on the same wavelength. Everyone does what they like”, confessed his wife for Télé Star last April , quoted by Télé Loisirs.
Moreover, the couple keeps this beautiful bond in the city as well as on stage, at the theater and with the family. “Right now, Pierre and I are on tour with Fallait pas le dire!, a play written by my daughter Salomé. I’m doing what I’ve always done before going on stage: I sign myself”, concluded for Télé 7 Jours the actress who replies to Jeremy Banster this Saturday, May 20 in Les Secrets du Finistère on France 3.
