The screenwriter, producer and one of the best filmmakers of our time - Luc Besson - has come a long way before achieving such impressive results. But as a child, he dreamed of doing a completely different thing.
Biography
Luke Besson was born in 1959 in the city of Paris, France. His parents were scuba diving instructors, traveled a lot and explored the world with his son. From childhood, Luke wanted to continue the work of his parents, to study the depths of the sea and devote his life to the seas and oceans. But fate decreed otherwise. Parents divorced, and the boy felt lonely. And when Luke Besson was seventeen years old, at one of the diving classes he made an unsuccessful dive, because of which he almost lost his sight. He lost the opportunity to do what he loves.
After the divorce, things went wrong in the family. Besson cannot afford expensive ways of expressing himself; moreover, he cannot decide on his future profession. He considered all his desires and skills and decided that he could become successful in the film industry. But there was no money for film technology, so the seventeen-year-old Luke simply picked up a notebook, pen and began to compose stories. Already at the age of 17-18, Luc Besson created a draft script for one of the most successful films of the 20th century - The Fifth Element.
For some time, Luc Besson worked as an assistant director in Hollywood, then, after a three-year hiatus, for which he served in the army, with new strength and aspirations he returned to Hollywood, where he devoted himself to great cinema. In 1983, his first feature film “The Last Battle” was released, in which one of the main roles was played by Jean Renault.
The famous French director was married four times. The first time he married in 1986 was the main actress from his film "Nikita" - Anne Pariyo. A year later, they had a daughter, Juliet, but four years after her birth, the couple broke up. In 1992, Luc Besson married Mayvenn Le Besco, who gave birth to his second daughter. But in 1997, the director began an affair with Mila Jovovich, and Besson and Le Besco parted. Unfortunately, the third marriage with Jovovich ended in divorce in just two years. But the fourth marriage to Virginia Silla, his current wife, gave him three children: two daughters and a son.
