The actor and singer has long wrestled with the taboo-tackling legacy of her father Serge’s songwriting. But as her new album Rest is released, has she finally found her confidence? And what does she make of the allegations against her Nymphomaniac director?
When she was 19, Charlotte Gainsbourg saw a news flash on the TV saying her father was dead. Firemen were breaking into Serge Gainsbourg’s house on Rue de Verneuil, near the hotel where we meet. After his death, Gainsbourg, her stepmother Bambou and half-sister Kate Barry lay next to his body as well-wishers visited. “We were like dogs around him,” she says. “It was a weird few days – it felt like a week. I didn’t want to let go. So, I stayed until I couldn’t.”
She laughs, surprisingly. It’s easy to see Gainsbourg as fragile. Wearing jeans, a vest, and a Le Smoking jacket, the 46-year-old singer and actor seems slim enough to fold up. She whispers to waiters. It’s hard to imagine her listening to Post Malone and Cardi B, her brash current favourites. But she’s upbeat, despite just arriving from New York – unemotional and enthusiastic, even when discussing her father, and Barry, who died almost four years ago in an assumed suicide.
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