Barely a month since her 42nd birthday, the one and only Marianne of France herself graces the 40th anniversary cover of Madame Figaro! In her first post-quarantine shoot, Laetitia Casta discuses her indifference toward aging, being more at peace, her 80s childhood, and acting among other topics.

I’m just so happy for Laetitia Casta! Like Tom Brady and LeBron James, Laetitia Casta is still acting and modeling without even thinking of slowing down. It’s so wonderful Laetitia isn’t letting anything deter her from her creative endeavors. She inspires me so much and I think her cover for Madame Figaro is a sign for all the great things to come!

You can read the whole article at Madame Figaro. Photography by Ellen von Unwerth.

Age doesn’t matter to me and I find it unbearable to categorize things by trying to find the right formulas. I find it much more interesting to be resilient to time and to live in the present, because it allows me to move forward more slowly. Living in constant projection necessarily leads to an unhappy end, because it is life that decides, not us. Today, I feel good and I am less afraid than when I was 20 years old. Over time, you have to learn to live peacefully with yourself. We accept to be fragile, imperfect, and we tolerate our neuroses. Some of them are also vital, like my thirst for freedom.

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The 1980s

I associate those years with the music and hits of George Michael and Michael Jackson, whom I listened to as a teenager. I love to dance and it’s the only thing that interests me when I go to a party: being the first on the dance floor and leaving the last. As for fashion, I don’t have any great references, because at that time, I was a child and I lived in the countryside in the middle of the forest. At home, clothes were passed between brother and sister. So I have no material attachment but I can talk about the seasons, the animals, and I always know how to recognize plants.

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The Future

I am optimistic in nature and, as all previous crises have shown, the economy will eventually recover. However, I thought I was a homebody, the confinement made me realize that I needed to go out! (Laughs.) I even dreamed that I was breaking down walls … I still took advantage of this period of withdrawal to write and I plunged back into my intimate teenage diaries. The opportunity to discover that, finally, in twenty years, I had not changed so much!