With this early curfew, we suspected that the aperitif would start with an herbal tea, before moving on to the glass of red. A little less, on the other hand, than the one who played so well in Free student, by Joachim Lafosse, that in The Great Bath, by Gilles Lellouche, who played King Philippe in the Robin Hood of Ridley Scott would know how to make itself so affordable. And we would not have dared to imagine that theUnfaithful husband of Claire Keim (in the series which is a hit on TF1) and the sexiest secret agent (he is Raymond Sisteron in The Legends Office) or a man – almost – ordinary.
The magazine It warned us: Jonathan Zaccaï, 50, was capable of … “Seduce a chair”. Hippolyte Girardot had drawn a wonderfully funny chronicle on France Inter, speaking of “The Zaccaï effect”, only comparable with the Clooney effect. We were dealing with – what else? – a “Attila of seduction”. Jonathan Zaccaï had tried to demine the thing on the air (“We are going to disappoint them”), the fantasy machine was in full swing as we were on our way to his home, located on the top floor of a quiet building in the center of Paris.
The question of identity
Except that the one who opens the door has left his roles in the locker room to accompany, a bit anxious (euphemism: anxiety being, by far, his best enemy), the publication, in February, by Grasset editions of his first book: My wife writes or the ubiquitous adventures of a character who closely resembles him.
While he was heating the water (it was really tea time), we looked at the library in which Leo Tolstoy was standing next to Virginie Despentes. With, prominently, its “Favorite writers” : Romain Gary and Philip Roth, two absolute masters in the art of masked advancement, kings of autofiction (and of the Oedipus complex: we will come back to this). It was the perfect opportunity to question him about his Jewishness which he also shared with the aforementioned. Long is by a “Too gay to be Ashkenazi” that he closed the subject. “My Jewishness? Hmm… that’s a question I ask myself. I am a Jew in the midst of questioning. “ Pirouette of a non-practitioner? Except that he goes on: “Jewishness, for me, is Isaac Bashevis Singer, Woody Allen, my grandmother’s Yiddish accent and my grandfather’s deportation. It’s a stronger identity than I think it is: it is there. “
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