This Wednesday, November 22, France 2 broadcast I was born at 17, in which Thierry Beccaro plays his own role. A TV film adapted from his book recounting his past as a child beaten by his father. In an interview with Le Parisien on Tuesday, November 21, he spoke about the role of his mother.
A shocking TV movie. On the occasion of an evening on the theme of violence, France 2 broadcast, this Wednesday, November 22, the fiction I was born at 17. An adaptation of the book by Thierry Beccaro, released in 2018, in which he confides in his painful past as a child beaten by his father. In this TV film, the host of Motus plays his own role. The filming was therefore not easy for Thierry Beccaro. In an interview given to 7 Days TVhe explained having done an attack of spasmophilia on the set. He also had “tingling in the hands” during certain scenes shot with Elsa Lunghini, who plays the role of his wife.
In the columns of ParisianThierry Beccaro returned to his past and his experience on the set. If all the scenes filmed in the TV movie are real, one was completely invented. The one in which he is facing his father on his hospital bed. “Maybe the hardest part is telling my father what I couldn’t tell him“, he confided. “In the scene where I go to see my father in the hospital, I say things that I would have liked to say to him in reality“, he clarified. Before continuing:“I was brought to tears because I would have liked him to ask me for forgiveness, at least once“. But, unfortunately, this was not the case.
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“He wouldn’t have asked you for forgiveness”his mother’s harsh sentence
And, even his mother doesn’t seem to have supported him. “My mother, with whom I spoke about it, replied: “ He wouldn’t have asked you for forgiveness »”, he explained. “My mother still defends him today”, he then revealed. Despite everything, he took care of his parents “up to 20 years”. “I took care of my parents making sure that mom was in a good mood, that dad hadn’t come home drunk, making sure that the conversations didn’t turn political… It takes so much energy“he remembered.
Today, Thierry Beccaro seems to be more peaceful. “We have made a nice journey”, he stressed. “Resilience comes later. It is far. It didn’t go from a path of brambles to a path of rose petals”, he concluded. A poignant speech.
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