This Tuesday, September 27, Géraldine Nakache was a guest on the show The Original Band on France Inter. During the interview, the actress confided in her family, and in particular on her father who made her very uncomfortable when she was a child.
A very funny dad. Geraldine Nakache was invited on the set of the show The Original Band this Tuesday, September 27. Come to present the film Holidays in which she holds the main role, the actress has also agreed to deliver some secrets about her childhood. Daughter of an IT director father and an assistant accountant mother, she notably mentioned her dad. “You call your dad a clown. He’s the one doing jokes at home?“, Nagui asked him.
“He was the fiction in reality”replied Géraldine Nakache, before adding: “I think that’s why my brother and I wanted to tell stories, because he was a man who invented a lot. He made a lot of jokes, a lot of prank calls to aunts, cousins,…”
Géraldine Nakache on her father: “He invented a lot of things”
Despite this good ambient mood, Leïla Bekhti’s great friend revealed that it could sometimes become very heavy for her. “He made me participate in jokes, and this first degree embarrassed me, because it made me uncomfortable”, she confided. And to quote a childhood memory:He invented a lot of things. He was telling the baker in the estate where we lived that we had gone on vacation to Hawaii, because we were tanned and it was August 24th. And when I said to him ‘why are you doing this? It’s not true’, he said ‘because it makes people dream, it’s cool'”. “He didn’t hurt but when you’re 10, you wonder why he does that? It’s weird”concluded the sister of Olivier Nakache.
During an interview with Paris Match in June 2021, Géraldine Nakache had already revealed that she grew up with a particularly joking dad. “I remember my father who would stop at nothing, even walking into a shop pretending he was a stutterer, just to make us laugh. Or swap my calculator for a remote control, right before I go to math class. It is also there, the cinema. Laughing to sweeten life”, confided the 42-year-old director, who however managed to find a place in the world of cinema without the help of her parents. However, this did not prevent him from having received an education that gave him a taste for the 7th Art. “Yes, there was cinema at home. The one we watched on TV and also the Sunday ritual in a room to see any movie. We have always had the desire to look at the world, to have a point of view and to like to laugh”, explained Géraldine Nakache to our colleagues.
Géraldine Nakache, a fulfilled wife and mother
Blooming in her profession, the actress is also in her private life. In January 2016, in the columns of Version Femina, she revealed to be “well in [sa] love life” and “spend time with [son] lover. He’s not in this business at all.”. Since her divorce in 2011 with Manu Payet, Géraldine Nakache has indeed found love in the arms of a certain Jérôme Elie-Betiya. “I feel loved, by him, my friends, my family”she explained in Version Femina, before giving her personal vision of love: “I show more than I say. For me, to love someone is to feed them. Not giving him big sentences. I have, I believe, a protective, sometimes stifling notion of love.. A few months after these rare confidences, on May 26, 2016, the two lovebirds got married, before becoming parents of a little girl in September of the same year.