2023-08-19 05:30:07
Gad Elmaleh, on the beach of La Mala, in Cap-d’Ail (Alpes-Maritimes), June 1, 2023. OLIVIER MONGE / MYOP FOR “THE WORLD”
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On the terrace with white tablecloths, facing the sea, he poured a drizzle of olive oil on his plate. He generously dips his breadsticks in it. “Look at this guyhe says, pointing his chin at a guy with a wife and children who is having lunch near the deckchairs. He looks like an American actor, doesn’t he? However, he didn’t film anything… Whereas I am obliged to make films. » Laughs. Saved. Gad Elmaleh is a comedian: it is both his weapon and his protection.
“Whether in Hollywood or Monaco, the stress we put on ourselves, we do it on our ownhe said, biting into another breadstick. There can be a fascination, but it’s not so much about blending in with the background as knowing how you remain yourself, showing a singularity that will make you appeal. People need to say you’re a good guy. » On these words falls on his face this melancholy veil which, at any moment, can conceal his eyes. “It weighed on me, this permanent judgment… The Blédard syndrome… A somewhat poetic way of saying that we are trying to adapt…”
The little Jew from Casablanca has come a long way since in 1988, at the age of 17, he left Morocco to study in Montreal, before joining Paris four years later and devoting himself to what he had always dreamed of. to do: play comedy. It will take him ten years to achieve popular success and the people pages of magazines.
On the popular side, stand-up shows that follow one another. And dozens of movie roles. We will also see it with Eric Rochant (Long live the Republic1997) that chez Pierre Salvadori (Overpriced, 2006). But it’s with his big comedies – taken from his one-man-shows -, Pet (directed in 2002 by the faithful Merzak Allouache, who gave him his first role in the cinema, in 1996, in Hi cousin !) et Coco (2009), where he is in front of and behind the camera, breaking the house at the box office.
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On the people side, the man, who had a first boy with the actress Anne Brochet, and to whom we attribute relations with Marie Fugain, Aurélie Dupont, Marie Drucker…, visited in 2011 apartments on the side of avenue Junot , in Montmartre. “Go for a drink. We have an aperitif with friends », offers him his girlfriend Virginie Coupérie-Eiffel. It was there that he met Charlotte Casiraghi, princess in Monaco, granddaughter of Grace Kelly, and her 15-year-old daughter. When he evokes it, the actor spreads his arms and eyes as if he had seen the Madonna. With her will be born a second boy, Raphaël. The idyll will not last but it is for this 9-year-old archangel that we find him here. “I try to be there for him as often as possible,” he said. Raphael is “God heals” in Hebrew. »
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