After 18 years and raising two children together, French director Guillaume Canet and actress Marion Cotillard announced their split in a statement.
Oscar winnng actress Marion Cotillard and French film director Guillaume Canet have called time on their realtionship after almost two decades together.
Cotillard, 49, and Canet, 52, have been dating since 2007, but have now said they are leaving.
The couple, who share son Marcel, 13, and daughter Louise, eight, released a statement via their reps on Friday (June 27) revealing the end of their relationship. The statement confirmed they were making the public announcement “in order to avoid all speculation, rumours and risky interpretations.”
“After 18 years together, Marion Cotillard and Guillaume Canet have decided to separate by mutual agreement,” a statement made by their reps to the made by their reps to the Agence France-Presse news agency said. “This decision was made with mutual goodwill.”
Before things turned romantic, the pair had been friends for more than ten years before they started dating in 2007. From 2001 to 2006, Canet was wed to Diane Kruger.
The pair had previously collaborated on the 2003 dramatic comedy Love Me If You Dare. The couple also collaborated on the 2009 film The Last Flight while they were still together.
Their latest collaboration came earlier this year when Canet directed his partner in the upcoming film Karma, which is said to have reportedly finished shooting in May. Months earlier, Cotillard was seen walking the Berlin International Film Festival carpet alone.
Cotillard has appeared in a number of acclaimed French movies, but she gained fame by playing leading roles in major Hollywood motion pictures like Inception and The Dark Knight Rises.
Despite widespread speculation over the years, the couple never married or got engaged despite being married for 20 years. Six years later, they welcomed their daughter Louise and son Marcel with their first child.
Cotillard’s first significant relationship was with actor Julien Rassam before she started dating Canet. She worked as a director as well as a thespian Stephan Guerin-Tillie between 2000 and 2005.
Marion then began a two-year dated with French singer Mathieu Blanc-Francard before moving on to a nearly two-decade relationship with Canet.
Canet described her as the love of his life in a candid interview from 2011 about his partner. You move in a certain direction with someone, and then you awaken and declare, “She’s the love of my life.” He told the Guardian at the time, “I never saw it coming.”
“I need to be with someone who is searching and awake,” I said.
Source: Mirror
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