At the microphone of France Inter this week, Dany Boon spoke of the consequences of his celebrity on his relatives and those around him, starting with his son Noé. Uplifting.
This Thursday, September 15, Dany Boon and his accomplice Line Renaud were invited to the France Inter studio to discuss their new film collaboration, A great race, in theaters September 21. In this film directed by Christian Carion (Merry Christmas, 2005), we follow the taxi journey of Madeleine, a 92-year-old Parisian, towards the retirement home where she is about to spend her last days. She asks her driver, a disillusioned man, to drive past the places that mattered in her life one last time. At the microphone of France Inter, Dany Boon spoke about an important sequence in his career: the release of Welcome to the Ch’tis, en 2008. The comedian-turned-director’s second feature film met with immense success with the public at the time, even surpassing a historic record held by The big mop (1966) with its 20,489,303 counter entries.
If the resounding success of Welcome to the Ch’tis benefited the career of Dany Boon (and in the north of France), its consequences were more complicated to manage for those around him. Facing Léa Salamé, the filmmaker confided that his son Noé, “who is 23 today”, had to be “changed schools three times in the year following the release of Ch’tis, because ‘he was pissed off’. The fruit of his marriage to Judith Godrèche, the young man was born in 1999, a time when his father’s celebrity was confined to theaters. Dany Boon spoke of particularly complicated times for Noé, the victim of attacks from ” sometimes from his teachers. ” It was complicated […] He went back to the high school where he was before he clarified. For his part, Dany Boon confides that he had to learn to “ accept harsher criticism “since he has become without his knowledge” some kind of product »whose least words “ had a greater impact than before.
Dany Boon made another stunning revelation
This Friday, September 16, a sequence brought back painful memories to the memory of Dany Boon. On the set of It’s up to youPatrick Cohen unearthed a musical sketch of the comedian which had been recorded in 1994 as part of the show Have a nice week end. Dany Boon confided that he dreamed at the time of affording himself a piano, an unaffordable dream bought “on credit”, which he could not pay and which was finally seized from him. “I was banned from banking for a year because of this”, he said in front of Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine. A great music lover, Dany Boon often pays tribute to the artists he admires in his films. His speciality ? The French song. He also confides that he listened to Charlélie Couture as a teenager. Pianist in his spare time and amateur guitarist, Dany Boon never shuns a piece of jazz, or even a folk song. The discerning music lover has just returned behind the camera to shoot his eighth film, The Palm treein theaters soon.