A love story that lasts. Electronic music composer Jean-Michel Jarre met movie star Gong Li through a mutual friend during his Electronica tour in fall 2016. In 2019, he formalized his relationship with the Chinese actress to international career, going with his companion to a state dinner given in honor of the Chinese president at the Élysée. Sunday January 15, the artist was the guest of Michel Drucker in his show Can’t wait for Sundayon France 3. He returned on his love affair with the actresswhich he presents as a twist of fate, having always been strongly attracted by the Middle Kingdom without being able to justify his attachment. “I’ve always wondered what was my connection to china. I was called by this country. I went back to do this concert in the Forbidden City“, began by explaining the music lover, before continuing: “Gong Li is the first Chinese actress, and even Asian, to have made known Asian and Chinese cinema to the rest of the world. I understood when we met that it was all premeditated.“
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“The feeling of finding ourselves”
Jean-Michel Jarre and Gong Li spin, since their meeting, the perfect love, but do not communicate in their mother tongues. The figure of French electro has confided don’t speak chinese“it’s too late, too complicated“, and his beloved don’t speak french.
In 2019, Jean-Michel Jarre had poured out on his companion, affirming to Paris-Match : “We immediately had the feeling of finding ourselves, or rather to find usthe strange feeling of knowing us for a long time (…) I also like the idea that between us, the Lyonnais and the Chinese, the road, that of silk, was all mapped out.“
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