Maïwenn

She appeared in her then-husband's film, Il quinto elemento (1997), alongside her husband's future wife, Milla Jovovich.

[press conference for Mon roi - Il mio re (2015) at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival] I had made a sort of narcissistic trilogy and I wanted to turn up in a track-suit in the morning and focus solely on the actors. With each new film you want to do something different and new, so this was one of the new things I wanted to try out. Also, I wanted to have Emmanuelle [Emmanuelle Bercot] in the film. No one's irreplaceable, but I didn't know how I would make the film without her. I didn't know Vincent [Vincent Cassel], then I had a drink with him, and then I was absolutely 110 per cent sure that he was the right person. I had so many things to say about the relationship of those two people that I wanted to depict them in their life with their parents, their friends, their work, but there were so many things that I wanted to show.......the film spans ten years in the life of a couple, but you only have two hours, and Etienne [Etienne Comar] constantly encouraged me to stick to the topic because I tended to meander into other areas. The love story is something I've depicted in all my films for the past ten years. Recently a friend talked about an accident he'd had and how he'd stayed in a rehabilitation centre and that fascinated me, so I wanted to make a film about that too. As each film takes between two and four years, and time is marching on, I thought I'll make two films in one and at the same time one can focus on the things one really wants to concentrate on, and also I could jump around in time. Tony, the female character, in this way, could have a bit of hindsight in her judgement of past events.