'I would say that it should become a global attitude...' Charlotte Gainsbourg reveals the trait she wanted her children to have
Charlotte Gainsbourg has strived to teach her children to always be kind and courteous.
The 53-year-old actress-and-singer has three children, son Ben and daughters Alice and Jo, with her long-time partner, French-Israeli director Yvan Attal.
Charlotte says as a mother her main goal was to ensure her kids were good people before anything else.
When asked what values she has tried to impart on her family, she answered: "It may seem banal, but it is kindness, courtesy. Authentic kindness, not superficial, is fundamental because it means respect for others. In fact, I would say that it should become a global attitude."
Charlotte says the lessons she wanted to impart on her son and two daughters came from the things she learned from her own parents, her mother English actress-and-singer Jane Birkin and her father Jewish French musician Serge Gainsbourg.
In an interview with Italian publication IO Donna, she said: "That all comes from my parents and my childhood.
"People think I had an irreverent and cheeky father, when in reality dad was sensitive, open, had a very special charm that allowed him to be a little insolent at times, yet he was always very attentive to others.
"My mother shared his philosophy of life.
"In our house everything was very simple, no one was presumptuous, and my mum was very careful that we did not become girls full of airs - 'Now you are successful, maybe in a few years everything will be different' she would tell me. I was already aware of my lucky star, but I also knew that it was transitory, and this made me more modest."
Charlotte - who can be seen in new Amazon series 'Étoile', which has been created by 'Gilmore Girls' writers Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino - also gave an insight into her family life, revealing her home is full of laughter.
She said: "We laugh a lot in our family. I love people who laugh and know how to make people laugh. My father, then, was funny. He was a born showman and my first intuition of humour certainly came with him. My mother also amused me. She was beautiful and witty, you can see it in her first films. With two parents like that you can't help but enjoy comedy in life."
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Sydney Morning Herald
5 hours ago
- Sydney Morning Herald
These students aced HSC English Extension. This is how they did it
Sitting alone in a library, hours after the final bell had rung for the day, Saachi Singh bent over a blank page, pen in hand. Her English Extension 2 proposal was due in a few hours. She had spent five years dreaming about this moment, ever since she'd decided to take the course in year 7. Now it was time to write. 'I had so much pressure to come up with an idea in a couple of hours after five years of pondering what I want to talk about. I asked [the librarian] if she knew where I could find the Young Writers Showcase from previous years,' Singh said. 'Looking back, it was a very serendipitous moment for me because I never expected my work would also be published in that showcase.' She is one of 19 whose work was selected from more than 1500 students to have their English Extension 2 work featured in the Young Writers Showcase, an anthology now published online. The students come from a range of schools and backgrounds. All share one core trait – passion. 'From the moment I found out that English Extension 2 was a course, I knew from that moment I wanted to do the subject because I wanted to write. I didn't know what I wanted to write about, I had just set my mind on taking the subject.' She's part of a rare breed of students. English Extension 2 enrolments have fallen by more than 20 per cent since 2013; however, last year, 1483 students took the subject, up from 1248 in 2022. Passion drives these students, explains Clare Murphy, who has taught English at Mount Carmel Catholic College in Sydney's south-west for 32 years.
The Age
5 hours ago
- The Age
These students aced HSC English Extension. This is how they did it
Sitting alone in a library, hours after the final bell had rung for the day, Saachi Singh bent over a blank page, pen in hand. Her English Extension 2 proposal was due in a few hours. She had spent five years dreaming about this moment, ever since she'd decided to take the course in year 7. Now it was time to write. 'I had so much pressure to come up with an idea in a couple of hours after five years of pondering what I want to talk about. I asked [the librarian] if she knew where I could find the Young Writers Showcase from previous years,' Singh said. 'Looking back, it was a very serendipitous moment for me because I never expected my work would also be published in that showcase.' She is one of 19 whose work was selected from more than 1500 students to have their English Extension 2 work featured in the Young Writers Showcase, an anthology now published online. The students come from a range of schools and backgrounds. All share one core trait – passion. 'From the moment I found out that English Extension 2 was a course, I knew from that moment I wanted to do the subject because I wanted to write. I didn't know what I wanted to write about, I had just set my mind on taking the subject.' She's part of a rare breed of students. English Extension 2 enrolments have fallen by more than 20 per cent since 2013; however, last year, 1483 students took the subject, up from 1248 in 2022. Passion drives these students, explains Clare Murphy, who has taught English at Mount Carmel Catholic College in Sydney's south-west for 32 years.
The Age
7 hours ago
- The Age
Thom Yorke reveals ‘heavy' mental health toll after walking off stage during Melbourne show over silence on Gaza
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has revealed his mental health suffered a heavy blow after he stormed offstage during a solo show in Melbourne last October when he was heckled by a pro-Palestine protester. Yorke on Saturday posted an eight-page statement on Instagram about the war in Gaza, saying he remained in shock that his 'supposed silence' was perceived by some as complicity with Israel. In the post he also called Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu an extremist. Footage filmed of the fiery exchange on October 31, taken by a member of the audience during the encore of Yorke's second show at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, showed a man in the crowd yelling about the 'Israeli genocide of Gaza' and the devastating death toll. Yorke responded: 'Hop up on the f---ing stage and say what you wanna say. Don't stand there like a coward, come here and say it. You want to piss on everybody's night? OK, you do it, see you later then.' The audience member screamed, in part, 'How many dead children will it take for you to condemn the genocide in Gaza?' In the statement, the musician directly addressed the incident, saying 'some guy shouting at me from the dark last year … didn't really seem like the best moment to discuss the unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.' Yorke said his silence had been an attempt to show respect for all those who were suffering and those who had died during the conflict. However, he said this had allowed 'opportunistic groups to use intimidation and defamation to fill in the blanks'.
