Julie Depardieu may be an established actress, but she nonetheless remains a formerly sickly shy person. So much so that certain exercises related to her profession are a source of stress for her. TV shows on the front line…
At the moment, viewers only have eyes for Julie Depardieu and her sassy character from Alexandra Ehlea forensic pathologist as brilliant as she is quirky; the last episode attracted no less than 3.8 million viewers. But don’t say that to the actress, if she doesn’t shy away from her popularity, she’s nervous about being in front of the public…
Julie Depardieu paralyzed by the public: she has already taken medication to calm her fear
While she was a guest on the show We’re doing TV again on RTL, the 52-year-old actress made a most surprising revelation for an actress of her caliber: she is afraid of the public. More precisely that of television shows. “I’m afraid when there are other people (…) The public”she admitted to Éric Dussart. “I say to myself, there are still some who hate me, and I go through the inner process of what they must be saying by looking at me, so obviously that complicates me”she continued.
And Philippe Katerine’s wife – with whom she lives in a house in the suburbs – adds a bit of amusement with her own anecdote: “So I don’t say anything anymore. There, when there’s no one there, I don’t stop talking. Which doesn’t stop people from hating me… But at home!”. Moreover, the fear of Billy and Alfred’s mother is such that she already took anxiolytics before going on set. “Once I took it, for Ruquier’s show (We are not in bed, editor’s note) a very long time ago”she blurted. Before remembering: “But I say to myself ‘why did I take this, I’m crazy’. I wanted to sleep, I was completely collapsed.”
Julie Depardieu formerly sickly shy: “I told myself I wasn’t interesting.”
Very shy by nature, Julie Depardieu was not predestined for the cinema, she who much preferred philosophy. “As soon as someone said hello to me I turned scarlet”she recalled on the air. And the looks of others didn’t help anything: “There’s always someone in the audience who says: ‘Oh well, you’re all red’. Oh well, you’re not in danger of turning red.”
Impostor syndrome linked to his famous father, Gérard Depardieu? “I didn’t want to be looked at at all, to act interesting, I told myself that I wasn’t interesting…”sadly said Julie Depardieu before admitting to having always been very afraid “not knowing how to be brilliant”.
