“Having a child at my age has to do with hope”: Virginie Efira confides for the first time publicly about her pregnancy

In an interview with Elle on the occasion of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, Virginie Efira comments for the first time on her pregnancy, which she has just made official.

The secret would have been difficult to hide any longer anyway. Among the most prominent personalities at this 76th Cannes Film Festival, which opened on Tuesday May 16, 2023, Virginie Efira now assumes it publicly: yes, she is pregnant! If the rumor had been circulating for several weeks already, it will therefore have been necessary to wait for the great spring raout of the cinema to see, first in the front page of Télérama magazine before she climbs the famous steps, the rounded belly of the Belgian actress. A happy event that she awaits with her companion Niels Schneider, and on which she confides in our colleagues from Elle. “Pregnant at 45…”she lets go first, as if she were pensive.

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Before continuing, and answering a question about the acceptance of this future upheaval by her daughter Ali, now nine years old. “Having a child at my age has to do with hope. We live in such a weird world. But I don’t want to answer for my daughter. I think she already manages to live well with a mum identified. it’s not easy. She’s neither proud nor ashamed of it.” A way of evoking the subtle balance that she seems to have found between her private life and her career, which has experienced a real acceleration in recent years, on which she returns in the same interview. “Certainly, social and family life can be complicated. Me, I have always mixed everything up. From the film of Justine Triet (Sybil, released in theaters in 2019, Ed), my daughter came to the sets. It’s a job where you expect a lot, I can do the homework with her. Unlike an actor like Daniel Day-Lewiswho lives inside a role, for my balance, I need these round trips between the life of an actress, and the life of a woman, of a mother.”

A break away from the cameras

Should we understand that this pregnancy and the birth to come will not upset the rest of her career? Not quite… As indicated Teleramathis Festival, where Virginie Efira comes to defend two films, Love and forests by Valérie Donzelli et Nothing to lose by Delphine Deloget, will mark the start of a new stage, a break away from the plateaus. it remains to be seen how long Virginie Efira will last before returning to the big screen!