Marion Cotillard and Guillaume Canet announce their separation: “By mutual agreement and with mutual benevolence”

A laconic announcement to silence the voices. Friday, Marion Cotillard And Guillaume Canet they announced their break “by mutual agreement»Through a press release sent to the French news agency, AFP. “This decision was taken with mutual benevolence,” reads. “Parents of two children, today share this choice to avoid speculation, voices and hasty interpretations»The press release continues, underlining the” transparency “of the couple now ex, despite having always been very reserved. “Marion Cotillard and Guillaume Canet also express the desire for their private life, and above all that of their two children, will be respected”.

The two actors had been paired for 18 years. They had recited together for the first time in 2003 in Jeux d’enfants Of Yann Samuellwhere they played two childhood friends whose love was hidden by daring and sometimes cruel games. Six years later they found themselves on the set of Le Dernier vol Of Karim Dridiand the following year in Les Petits Mouchirschoral film that exceeded the five million spectators – followed by the sequel Nous FiniRons Ensembleten years later. Guillaume Canet made Marion Cotillard his Cleopatra in Asterix & Obélix: the middle empirewhere he himself interpreted the most famous of the Gauls.

Although reserved on their relationship, the two sometimes appeared together on the red carpet, and they had even staged their story in the film Rock’n rolldirected by Guillaume Canet himself. In that film Canet played an actor worried about becoming overcome, married to a successful actress very taken from his career, to the point of keeping the Quebeccian accent who was studying for one part at home. Together they had two children: Marcelborn in 2011, e Louiseborn in 2017.

In recent years, Marion Cotillard and Guillaume Canet have been the subject of many crisis voices. This time they preferred to anticipate gossip and put an end to speculation.