Brigitte Macron’s life story has plenty of film material to offer. Now the French first lady is getting her own biopic.
Brigitte Macron (71) is getting her own biopic. , a series about France’s “Première Dame” is in the works at the French film studio Gaumont.
The six-part biopic series entitled “Brigitte, une femme libre” (German: “Brigitte, a free woman”) was written by Bénédicte Charles and Olivier Pouponneau and is intended to depict the life of the wife of French President Emmanuel Macron (46 ) trace. Gaumont is still keeping the exact plot under wraps and the cast will be announced in the coming weeks.
Brigitte Macron’s exciting life story
Brigitte Macron’s life story certainly offers enough material for a television series. The former teacher met Emmanuel Macron when she taught at a Catholic high school. Macron was a teenager at the time, 15 years old. Brigitte Macron was 40, married and mother of three children. At the age of 17, Emmanuel Macron fell in love with the teacher, who was 24 years his senior.
After divorcing her first husband, Brigitte married Emmanuel Macron, now 29, in October 2007. After a distinguished political career, he became President of France in 2017. Brigitte Macron left her job as a teacher this year to take on representative tasks as the president’s wife.
Gaumont has already produced several internationally successful series in the past, including “Lupin” with Omar Sy (46) and “Becoming Karl Lagerfeld” with Daniel Brühl (45).
It is not yet known when the public will see the biopic. Brigitte Macron herself may have already appeared in a series before: at the beginning of April, the French First Lady was spotted filming the fourth season of the Netflix series “Emily in Paris” with Lily Collins (35). Rumor has it that she may make a surprise appearance in a future episode.
Source: Stern
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