Host of the show Incidentally This Monday, November 14 on Canal +, Gad Elmaleh received a video message from his parents that moved him to tears.
At the end of 2022, Gad Elmaleh returns to the cinema, in front of and behind the camera. It comes out on November 16th. stay a while, his new directorial comedy, which he shares with his family. In this new feature starring his brother and his parents, the actor returns to France after three years in the United States, without daring to admit to his family that he is doing it to convert to Catholicism. A funny religious introspection that prompted Charlotte Casiraghi’s ex-boyfriend to forge new ties with his loved ones. Guest this Monday November 14 in the show Incidentally on Canal+, the comedian got a nice surprise from the host Natalie Levi, who showed him a video message from his parents Régine and David. ” There was no better idea. Creating an atmosphere elsewhere, there, everything was natural “, began the father, followed by his wife who added:” And it would have been difficult for us to go anywhere else. »
“He had a great idea. Well we, at first we panicked, we saw this huge organization, we panicked but he frankly knew how to calm us down, give us small examples to play with, he was very good. Gad is thinking of us for the next film. Attention, we want to continue with you. Cheerfulness “, concluded Gad Elmaleh’s father, arousing strong emotion in the latter. ” It’s very moving, it’s fantastic. Humor, really, is a language in my family. My father is not a comedian, nor is my mother, but it is a language, a way of saying things. There I see it even more, it’s such modesty the 51-year-old actor reacted before confiding: My father doesn’t talk to me that long. Thanks, Nathalie, by the way, I think that’s the longest statement. I don’t like this word but my father is silent. »
⋙ PHOTO – Gad Elmaleh: an evening full of complicity with the eldest son Noé
Gad Elmaleh shocked by a retreat in an abbey
While Gad Elmaleh seeks to penetrate the subtleties of faith in this new film, he also confided that he was overwhelmed during a retreat held in an abbey in the south of France. “Yes, I have already made a withdrawal. Also, I experienced something very, very funny with the Cistercian monks. I did a retreat in Sénanque, near Avignon where there is an abbey of Cistercian monks” he explained inside Premier Club on Paris Première, before recounting an interview with one of the brothers of the brotherhood. « And I redid my CV in front of this brother, he asked me who I was and why I was famouswhy people were interested in me, and i also wondered why people were interested in me. And that brought me back to earth. I redefined myself“, Gad Elmaleh confessed to Laurent Ruquier.
Article written in collaboration with 6Medias
Photo credits: Canal+
