Sophie Marceau, the ‘Brave Heart’ actress, has come out as a sapiosexual

french actress Sophie Marceau He reappeared on the media’s radar for making a sensational revelation: he came out as a sapiosexual.

Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu (this is her real name), known for playing Elisabeth of France in Brave Heart, gave an interview to Liberation in which she claimed to be attracted to intelligent people.

Marceau said this in the context of the presentation of his book of poems La Souterraine (The Underground) speaking with the journalist Luc Le Vaillant.

The César Award winner for her performance in La Boum (1980) had her peak of fame in the late nineties, when she starred in Anna Karenina two years after taking orders from Mel Gibson in Braveheart.

In recent years, however, he has lowered his profile, dedicating himself to work almost exclusively in his country.

Marceau had three known partners. The first was the director Andrzej Zulawskiby whom he had his son Vincent. Both were together from 1985 to 2001.

The second person who passed through his life was the producer jim lemleyfather of his daughter Juliet.

And the third was about Christopher Lambertwith whom he started dating in 2007. This relationship, the last known until then, lasted until 2014.

What is Sapiosexuality?

The sapiosexuals They are people who feel seduced by the intelligence, intellect or knowledge of others, regardless of their gender or sexuality..

The term was first mentioned in 1998 by LiveJournal user WolfieBoy. This person created the word because he felt there was no one word to describe his sexual preferences.

Since 2014, popular dating site OkCupid has included the term as a sexual orientation option, thus giving it greater legitimacy.

Most famous sapiosexuals

Marceau is not the first celebrity who uses the term sapiosexual to refer to his sexual preferences.

Not to mention the famous word, Marilyn MonroeFor example, he stated that he liked intelligent people while making sure that Albert Einstein was the most seductive man he had ever met.

Singer Marco Ronson He did the same in 2019; she said during a visit to Good Morning Britain that she perceived herself as a sapiosexual.

Earlier in the same program the author Nichi Hodgson had defined the term: “The definition of sapiosexuality means first and foremost intelligence“.

“I’ve dated men, women, trans men, trans women, and across the gender spectrum and now I identify as bisexual. What brought all of these people together was their brains,” she added.

That day, Hodgson also said that “a certain percentage of the population is known to be sapiosexual,” and that many of those people probably don’t know it.It has always existed, we just didn’t have a word for it“, complete.