Valérie Lemercier has a workshop “that looks like her” in a very chic area of Paris. The 61-year-old actress feels particularly good there, just like in her Normandy house facing the sea…
Valérie Lemercier is not one of those who are tired of the tumult of the French capital. On the contrary, the 61-year-old actress particularly appreciates the Parisian energy! The actress, who is presenting her new one-woman show at the Théâtre Marigny, even has a workshop in the City of Lights, where she regularly takes refuge and where she writes…
Valérie Lemercier: her Parisian workshop that “looks like her”
The one who is a director and screenwriter in addition to being an actress opened the doors of her workshop in Palais-Royal, in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, to Madame Figaro. “The place looks like him. A heterogeneous mix of objects, mirrors, tables – including ironing boards –, where the old rubs shoulders with the latest computer equipment, where the immense portrait of Marilyn naked by Bert Stern and a small photo by Bourvil sits“, we read in the magazine. A “large room overlooking the historic gardens“in which we also find many”beauty cases and vanities“, essentials for this fashion, makeup and hairdressing enthusiast.
The star of the film Aline cherishes this workshop all the more because it is in Paris, where she lives. The one who grew up in the small Normandy town of Gonzeville still loves the hustle and bustle of the capital, where she feels more “free“.”In my village, there were very few of us. Everyone knew each other, everyone commented: “He does this, she does that…” In Paris, on the other hand, there are so many people that no one really cares how you dress or what you do. There is something anonymous that I really appreciate. I love the city for that“, she confided in The Papotin Meetings.
Valérie Lemercier, her seaside house in Normandy: “I like being cooped up…”
Despite everything, she never forgets her native Normandy, where she also owns a beautiful property. “Above all, there is my seaside house, where I sometimes don’t go to see the sea! Because I like to be locked in a place and not come out“, she explained to Point of view.
In this place, she feels at least as free as in Paris: “There, I do what I want, at any time. I can stay in pajamas until eight in the evening, or sew tablecloths and clothes until three in the morning“. If she recently revealed that she was in a relationship with a 37-year-old young man, Valérie Lemercier values her freedom and independence.
