“I made myself known by making people laugh, but that’s not me.” In a long interview with Sunday newspaper (JDD), actor Franck Dubosc, who is about to unveil rumba lifehis second feature film as a director, he was confident in the way he used humor, which was not an end in itself.
Known for his participation in numerous comedies, he affirms that humor was for him “a composition destined to gather the greatest possible number of spectators and then lead them to proposals to which they are less accustomed”. In his early days, the texts of his first stand on stage at the Café du Trésor they were thus rather shot through with a certain emotion, he explains.
“It is to broaden my audience that I added humor. But by doing this, we necessarily deviate from ourselves,” says the 58-year-old comedian. For him, humor is ultimately “a mask” that allows him to “let go.”
Prioritize drama over comedy
Franck Dubosc also reveals that the film Campinga smash hit from 2006, it wasn’t originally intended to be so comedy-oriented:
“When I was doing boards in my Camping to me, who called me July 14 – August 15, had emphasized the social angle. Then with Fabien Onteniente we brought him closer to comedy. If we had filmed my version, of course it would have touched fewer people, the film would have been less family-friendly.”
However, the actor does not regret “this humorous parenthesis” in his career, which finally allowed him to make films that resemble him, such as his first feature film as a director, everybody stand up, in 2018. He no longer hesitates, to this day, in preferring drama to comedy. As in his next film, in which he realized during editing that humor “sometimes annoyed what[il] Dear[it] say.” Then removing some schoolboy scenes, non-essential in his eyes.
Source: BFM TV
