"I was very lucky": 2 years after her stroke, Catherine Deneuve gives news of her health

The actress on display on November 24 in In her lifetime lifts a corner of the veil on her state of health, two years after her stroke. She confides her desire to shoot.

Catherine Deneuve is back in the cinema, two years after her stroke occurred on the set of the drama In her lifetime, which will be released in theaters on November 24. After a first public appearance last July at the Cannes Film Festival, the star delivers rare secrets about her state of health in the columns of Elle magazine.

Catherine Deneuve prefers to put her state of health in relation to the pandemic. "My own situation was swept away and overtaken by the Covid. What had happened to me no longer mattered so much. Everyone had known or knew of the sick, dead, tragedies. Everyone was taken under the same screed. And I was no longer 'excluded' or protected. Like everyone else, I felt close to people I didn't know."

"I really want to shoot again"

Now restored, this actress who usually multiplies the projects dreams of playing again. "Apart from filming in Belgium for a few days, I haven't really resumed yet and I have refused films that I found less obvious to me. But today, I want to say it, I have again really want to shoot!"

De Son vivant, which marks her third collaboration with Emmanuelle Bercot after Elle s'en va (2013) and La Tête haute (2015), features Catherine Deneuve as the mother of a man (Benoit Magimel) condemned by cancer.

Catherine Deneuve

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