Questioned by our colleagues from Yahoo, Benjamin Castaldi spoke without filter about the conversations he had for a long time with Yves Montand on the subject of women. Discussions which were enough to cause great pain to her grandmother Simone Signoret.
Time passes and Benjamin Castaldi still thinks as much of her grandmother Simone Signoret. For several days, the former columnist of Do not touch My TV visits different media to talk about the play Bungalow 21, of which he is the co-producer. Sisters Emmanuelle and Mathilde Seigner play Marilyn Monroe and Simone Signoret respectively. Both will fall in love with the same man, Yves Montand, played by Michaël Cohen. On the occasion of this news, Benjamin Castaldi spoke to Yahoo on the relationship he had with his grandmother’s partner.
Yves Montand spoke “women all the time” with Benjamin Castaldi
It’s no secret that Yves Montand was a ladies’ man. After cheating on his wife with Anne Drossart, the actor had a relationship with Marilyn Monroe: “When Montand spoke to me about Marilyn, he really spoke to me about it at length, in depth, and across the board, and he explained to me that it was not his fault. Listening to him, we really pushed”revealed Benjamin Castaldi in Roll on Sunday. The chronicler was used to hearing him talk about his conquests, he listened attentively, even if he felt uncomfortable. “Montand, he talked to me all the time about women. It was also weird because I was still quite young, and he talked to me a lot about sex. He loved women, when he met a girl, not courting her, for him, was somehow disrespecting her.“, he confides.
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For Yves Montand, his relationship with Marilyn Monroe was “a love affair“
Yves Montand was unfaithful to Simone Signoret several times, but he did not always fall in love with his partners. “For him it was a love affair. For her, it wasn’t a love affair at all.“, he added on Michel Drucker’s show. We cannot say the same thing about the American star who would have fallen.”completely crazy” from him.
