Brigitte Bardot - 85: Two Lives of One of the Most Beautiful and Unpredictable Actresses

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

September 28 marks 85 years of the famous French actress and public figure Brigitte Bardot. In her youth, she was a screen star, a standard of beauty, a style icon and an adored by millions of fans, but shortly before her 40th birthday, she announced the end of her acting career. She spent the second half of her life in such a way that no one else recognized the former film star in her. What made her make such a decision, what she has been doing since then, for which she despises people, especially actors, and what she looks like now - further in the review.

Everyone knows about her first half of her life. Brigitte Bardot was born in Paris. She was called the ugly duckling - in her youth, she wore glasses, metal braces to correct the bite and suffered from strabismus. Classes at the ballet school corrected her posture, the girl blossomed, and soon she was offered shooting in fashion magazines. Having started her career as a model, at the age of 18 she began acting in films, and over the next 4 years she played in 17 films!

In the 1950s. she became a real star. World popularity came to her after her role in the film "And God created a woman." And although this film was condemned for excessive frankness by the Catholic Church, and the Vatican called Brigitte Bardot the personification of sin, after that the actress gained worldwide recognition. The directors vied with each other to offer her new roles, calling the blonde beauty a sex symbol of the era.

Captured in the sculptural image of Marianne - the national symbol of France, she herself has become the same symbol. Once General de Gaulle thanked the actress for bringing the country as much income as the entire Renault automobile company. American actor John Wayne used to say: "". She starred with the best directors and earned the status of an international star and the most desirable woman in the world.

At 38, Brigitte Bardot shocked her many fans by announcing that she had decided to leave the acting profession forever. Moreover, years later, she confessed that she had never liked this occupation and had no respect for people involved in the world of cinema: "".

True, film critics called another reason for this decision - they say, Bardo never shone with talents and was good on the screens while she was young and beautiful. To cope with serious dramatic, characteristic and age roles, she, in their opinion, simply could not. However, the actress herself admitted that she had become a hostage to her image, but was not ready to change the role of a fatal beauty and appear before the audience in the image of a middle-aged lady, and even more so an old woman. She has always been categorically against plastic surgery and deliberately made the decision to age naturally.

Brigitte Bardot never regretted leaving the cinema. The second half of her life she was engaged exclusively in social activities related to the protection of animal rights. In an interview, the actress said that in fact this turn was not abrupt and sudden - ever since Brigitte first saw the cartoon about Snow White, she dreamed of living alone, in a small house, surrounded by animals.

The actress admitted that taking care of the animals became a real salvation for her - if not for them, she would have killed herself long ago.“” - says Brigitte Bardot. She believes that only this activity has real meaning and meaning, in contrast to what she was doing before.

At 83, Brigitte Bardot published a book of memoirs, where she confessed to her own misanthropy. She called people "" and stated that animals deserve love much more than people. The entire human race evokes in her only horror and regret.

She always said whatever she thinks, without worrying about political correctness, which earned the scandalous fame of the "inconvenient" star. Journalists often boycotted her and were afraid to invite her on the air because of her harsh statements about migrants, Muslims and gay people. She had to appear before a court more than once for inciting ethnic hatred, she lost the proceedings, but did not renounce her words. Recently, a new wave of outrage was caused by the statement of the 83-year-old star that the complaints of actresses about harassment from producers and directors is nothing more than hypocrisy. They say that they themselves flirt with influential men in the hope of getting roles, and then complain of harassment.

Today she does not deny that she lived like two different lives, but believes that she was equally successful in the first half of her life and in the second. However, she calls animals her children, but her relationship with her own child was very difficult: Why Brigitte Bardot abandoned her own son.