i have a very special cinema tradition the french movies are not always as popular as big as the how you would please but many critics say that the french contribution to the filmmaking is no less even maybe better than the american so my guests on the program today a very famous french actor has also scriptwriter a comedian a television house. mad. in the early two thousand skadden a rat burst to the top of french cinematography and has become one of its most familiar faces started off as a comedian and later proved his skills in drama receiving the prestigious french sees a movie award for the role of the father who conceived the song nevertheless comedies truly he's real or rather like no one else makes people smile sometimes tears.

thank you thank you very much for being with us on this show i'm very glad to see you in the flesh finally after seeing it on screen well the first question i wanted to ask you i know i know that you actually didn't plan to be inactive to be in the movies when you were when you were a kid so how did you want to be. what did i want to be. i wanted i wanted i wanted to be what i am today and entertainer. so i wanted to entertain people make them laugh perhaps sometimes make them cry. i want to jump or i would travel a lot and meet people all over the world. i think i'm very fortunate that i work in the film industry and i fulfilled my dream that i am what i wanted to be there for

. so for you being what you are an actor a director a movie star is not. is actually it was only the way to do what you wanted to travel to see places where you. could impart well i don't know any other way at least for me to live the way i live. but perhaps i could do something else but i don't see how i could do what i did today doing something else. somewhere. i've read that when you were ten. you founded a rock group and you started playing music and. you put yourself you believe the drug ok so what kind of music was that it was that i mean i mean the small kids can really play rock n roll rock and roll really even in france. or

pop rock pop. do you know groups like deep purple sure purple yes business led zeppelin yeah led zeppelin status quo what status quo even johnny holiday event. yeah so when johnny holiday. so basically the groups i mentioned. so i got this band together and we would perform in different places different festivals. we did this until we were both twenty one and i still love music. i still play music from time to time you play the drum because you can't read music you can't play anything else. this is what usually happens you want to be in the group but you can play the piano is that is that is it. yes right you can play drums even if you can't read music

if you actually you know. lazy and playing drums doesn't require much of your time is you pursue. music. much music classes of course but music is more of a pastime to me than a job was your band your group was it successful know. so well you me you me you make any money but don't. we. just a little bit we're going to feel if we played mostly in restaurants and bars so in the evening if there was a lot of people we would get a certain percentage of what if somebody buys a drink you get a share for example have fun and you get paid. so we would make some money and i made a living this way for a few years to come and i didn't get richer or anything but i made a living. there so so you like played for food. for

four years i played for food and for a bit listen as so. he said that you still you still are very very much into music do you play any music now do you have to do so would tell us about it we should continue to continue to play drums. and i still have a lot of friends among musicians. the thought oh yeah sometimes i'm invited to play drums with the band. at a concert or in a restaurant. and sometimes i just wave my hand and say hey can i play drums with you about it and people invite me because they know me. and they want me to have fun with them but i'm actually not the best playing drums you know there's some of it well let's talk about. something different well hey you said once that your you are of an algerian are region so you know you said that you you

know. brother and sister they did experience problems with your name when you were kids and so did you or since the did experience some problems living in in france and having in the here in the is it still is it still a problem in the in the end of the twentieth and twenty first century yeah sure we thought we thought that the difference more than half of the population are old you are in the know not you not me no not yet but you're right france has received numerous waves of immigrants over the years before it started after the war a pretty good areas rance sought to rebound after world war two. france welcomed immigrants who would later become french citizens. from france and there are generations of french people with foreign roots you know with on foreign names false and this is still a bit of a problem was what. i don't tip our lives over these old you know why i don't know

why they feel. that it was difficult for some to see people who are different from them. you know i always say that if i were president i would encourage every frenchman will put you travel around the world is with us on the you see other places to see other lifestyles. there is a category of people in france about to the moment when you are afraid of the things they don't know. what is your and when they come across people with different names different faiths different routes their spirit. so this is still a problem in france and it is hard to resolve even though france is the birthplace of freedom and human rights if your name is different it is still difficult or this is you know. in a film he made a movie called. a you played

a little gerry and pretending to be an italian yes that's true did you find any parallels with your own life and was there any special message that you wanted to to. express to the audience by play or by made making this film. well personally i haven't experienced anything like that my father. my father who. changed his name when he moved to france. and you know he's a reason this work quite interesting. deal wasn't charge of a group of french workers i did book and that in those days it was uncommon for in the old cheery him to be in a position of authority. as he did so changed his name to avoid problems. even though i don't think he faced any particular problems then with the

deal. so this story of pretending to be an italian it is actually about the same thing. you know. but there are people who are worried that other reese won't like them. and so they invent a different name there's always a they invented a different origin and i don't. i guess the message of this film that to these people is that they should not be ashamed of their roots. so they should not be afraid of anything there's always in the their roots going to be their strength. meanwhile i don't know about russia but in france having foreign roots is still a bit of a problem it is ok to be on the range and be black it is ok to be french and to be chinese so the problem is still there i think the message of the film as i think you should embrace your roots. they should make you stronger if you see they should

help you. it's not easy but you shouldn't hide anything. when i understand my french do you bring your good student alexander. well but today he speak perfect french you're a popular person in france do you feel yourself to be being french or do you feel yourself jiri an ether you feel yourself a little cheer in french how do you identify yourself i mean this is very important not only. that i have never lived in algeria. since i was born in algeria and i grew up in france my mother is french my father is old during the french made it's also because after the liberation of algeria algerians were free to choose their country because back in those days old syria was part of france so if you have to choose this is. i think i'm

french with old cheering roots african roots. and i'm braced my origins. put a comparable things that were regarded as a disadvantage that people feel now my advantage i mean i have a lot of relatives and cousins i have aunts and i can go there to visit them and i'm not all cheery and i'm french the sump of all just like many other french people with foreign roots the problem is if you don't then remove the french yes this way it's in the same as you would with and this is strange that you say that in the twenty first century it still may be a problem especially for kids yes but you know for young. people kids or younger people especially those living in the suburbs these you know company already to still difficult if they have a foreign name likely have foreign roots the i discover more people have certain ideas about the arab countries they have certain ideas about all muslim countries

and sometimes they are wary of people from those countries make you want something so the same cliches are then applied to kids or in origin. says. french actor filmmaker and comedian spotlight will be back shortly after we take a break so stay with us that go.

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he. says. welcome back to spotlight time world we're not even just a reminder that my guest on the show today is cognate hobbit french actor comedian filmmaker and television star. well another movie you made another film that also

touches upon problems of communication of different people is welcome to the state very funny and then said i was one of my favorites and as a matter of fact people many people say this is your best film you did the best role you played do you agree this is really your best film or you have another favorite. so. it was very easy for me to work on this film. because it's a comedy stuff in comic and i'm a comic actor comedian and even though this is not your comedy this is of and this is it's not exactly commute it's not going to finish me you know it's a difference difference it was yes yes but it has a lot of funny scenes and yet it speaks of some serious things we.

maybe maybe well you know. a definite splayed apart in the film called the great stroll or don't look now because it was a very funny phone but it was about war and war as we know is a very serious subject so good french comedies talk about serious things you know funny way because of course this was a very important film but there was also another film with melanie lurana by felipe i don't know if you've seen it it's called on finance warrior it was also a very important film for me well since you've started speaking about it at the thought makers well you may not answer this question but some people do well do you have a favorite movie a fellow a favorite filmmaker and not like like an idol for you know maybe an actor something that you really pray pray on you know like. brazil i have many. jim stewart jim stewart. because.

he played an ordinary man and he was very natural very deep. love peter sellers in the pink panther or use a comedy actor comics trav again this bright but he's a very good actor. these actors have influenced me they inspire me and they place. little small people i mean they play little people would reply yes always this is what you do yes i did. yes these are actors that inspire me it is that old nurse for directors there are so many of them today but that perhaps frank capra it's a wonderful life. also some mendis old real thomas anderson. and this. is impossible to list everybody you know i love jerry

luce to me jerry lewis was a great tragedy comical after. the nazi professor i don't know if you've seen this film it's a perfect movie it's funny and at the same time it's incredibly touching because it is it is a rare combination well for a he one they naming the films and the actors that are sort of there they look somehow like the french films yeah not hundred percent hollywood yes well french films are very distinctive i mean most of the people can tell a french film after watching it for one three five minutes you know this is french you know what's what is this that makes french cinema so distinctive so so different from probably would from anything else what is it. i don't know. sitting there it's an interesting question. because.

i think there is really something special about french films which makes them special senior and sets them apart from others but i can't tell you exactly what it is that makes american films different from french films because they feel america . actually the raw america. in films that are quite realistic which is about the christian references but the thing about french films is i guess we know how to make films about our times you know that if you coupon been a quick buck but that you know anything about russian cinema those are the. no really we we yes yes yes. but then why don't we give me some russian films. bill you know. that's

a russian director right i know him. i think he may be the only russian director we know in france he's the only one i know although i'm not really an expert on russian illnesses this is a contemporary wish and filmmaker and he is one of us. ok now let's talk about we started talking about hollywood yes well actually hollywood is is the best factory of making movies sure it's one of the biggest in the world but well i. like to say that hollywood is killing the movies why because because it's so it's such a high standard of movie making and then when you see an ordinary film. with a low budget you see the low budget and people on the used to watching these these little guys they they're used to watching these fifteen cameras specially let's all that well do you think do you think that hollywood is really killing like the real

cinema or he's trying to elevate the world cinema to this that this is good or bad well. what. i can't tell you whether it's good of that it's a good thing is you need all sorts of films for all sorts of people. and even americans but there are multimillion budgets for viva help promote the film industry all over the world they help attract new viewers. pretty soon it is difficult to produce a film on a limited budget. so in france big films help generate money that can then be used to make low budget films. there is professional solidarity. i'm not really a big fan of hollywood blockbusters. i prefer. by sort of burgas some more for example mendis thrillist film it's. one but i think you also need for

a broader audience you need something but respect accurate what's happening to the stories because what you do is what you call the shows the levee i mean but the how with the bigger the film the smaller the story that no stories at all i mean i mean why is that is because people don't want stories they just. were no no no i don't think so and i think people care about stories. by these people don't like it when those stories are too complex. being in another world seeing the visual effects spectacular sights of the same people can then go and see a film that talks about all serious deeper things so i thing you need both but what . you need both wolf and i ok do you have any special

characters any person or where or well maybe maybe not a real person somebody that you would like to play that you will well while you wish to play is there somebody you want to you want to be on stage or. would love to play a real person. i would love to play in what they call a biopic. i don't know if i could play say an athlete. maybe a former sox or at the end of his career. or maybe a well known artist. and they need to do something like that. or for that or for example there was a film about alfred teach. so i would love to portray a real historical figure and that's i mean you know because i mean. would you play your. if there is a story that your father coming to france would you like to play this well. it's

a good idea but my father is not famous nobody knows him. but i can tell people about him. actually it's an excellent idea never occurred to me you're right life can be easily turned into a script and. this is often the case with people who move to another country and try to make a home there think about it so you can make this film where you can read this and when you make it i'll play that russian journalist who we interview your son. it's a deal listen to you here got this sees our award the couple of days ago in two thousand and seven. do these do the awards and things like that really mean a lot. of filmmakers are they important. yes they're important. especially as regards me personally. and then. yes if you

receive an award having grown up in a poor neighborhood in new york from the world of arts and then you receive such an award it means a lot to you. but i can if you put i'm not very competitive because i don't like to compete of course i think it is important to have a ceremony with you woody instead of the media it is important to have a show created but the main thing is you need to create something artistic we need to make films you need to work something. out there is only by fox and yes i'm happy that i have received these are award support on the. us is aussies are not going to just go see hold balls on for that because it's your particular scene or this was awkward well this is. just a reminder that my guest on the show today was cad metti had this french actor filmmaker and television star and that's it for now from all of us here spotlight

will be back. with more first hand comments on who was going on in and outside russia and if you have someone in mind so you think i can that to be next time just drop me a line on alvin up at you well that's it from all of us here and until we're back stay on r.t. and take care.

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