Saturday January 20, 2024, director Yvan Attal took part in the show Unexpected Journal on RTL, accompanied by journalist Nathalie Renoux. Promoting his next film, A roll of the dicescheduled for Wednesday January 24, 2024 at the cinema, the director was surprised live by a message on the computer in front of him. Amused, he shared: “I am at the microphone and in front of the microphones there are computers and I see there: ‘Attal is launching into a big debate’, I was afraid.“ Panic has indeed set in, leaving Charlotte Gainsbourg’s companion wondering if he should engage in a debate of which he has no prior knowledge. He related, amused, his thoughts: “I say to myself: ‘Damn, what debate should I have? I don’t know about it’.”
Fortunately, the misunderstanding was quickly cleared up, the message referring to the new Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal. Yvan Attal, with humor, commented on this confusion: “I feel like we need to I am preparing for this new life.” Journalist Nathalie Renoux then concluded by highlighting the significant news from Attal: “Definitely, the Attals are at the heart of the news.”
No relationship between Gabriel Attal and Yvan Attal
The question then arises of the family ties between Gabriel and Yvan Attal. At 34, Gabriel Attal, former Minister of National Education, became the youngest Prime Minister of the Fifth Republic on Tuesday January 9, 2024. Yvan Attal, born in 1965 in Tel Aviv, comes from a family where he is only son, with a watchmaker father and a stay-at-home mother. Despite their similar surnames, the two men did not none relationship. According to data from the specialized site, Forebears, 8,195 people bear the name of Attal family in the world.
Furthermore, in a recent interview on France Inter with Léa Salamé, Thursday January 18, 2024, two days before his appearance on RTL, Yvan Attal mentioned his signing on a platform in support of Gérard Depardieu. He explained : “I did not withdraw my signature because I signed. And I signed, with great difficulty.” He specifies that he was the only one to contest the platform and that he had requested changes several times, but without success. Despite his signature, he wanted to clarify his position: “Obviously, I am not Gérard Depardieu’s defender. I am not his lawyer,” he said.