Samuel Le Bihan may shine in the episodes ofAlex Hugo, but he doesn’t hide it: his best role is that of dad. In the podcast parents first of Entertainment TVthe 56-year-old actor has also approached as rarely the special relationship he has with his eldest son Jules, born of his love with actress Patricia Francino.
Aged 26, Jules seems to be moving towards an artistic profession: “He is interested in mapping, these are projections on monuments“. Not sure that he is into comedy like his father, he who suffered the media whirlwind generated by the explosion of Samuel Le Bihan’s career: “He lived through it head-on. […] It took me away from him a bit. It hasn’t been an easy time. He didn’t have his father as he should have. The fame, he did not live it in a very happy way, I think“.
Continuing his story, Samuel Le Bihan gently made it clear that he was racked with guilt about his son: “My feeling today is that I was not a good father at the time. I was a clumsy father. I didn’t necessarily have an easy childhood either. So suddenly you can’t give what you didn’t get“. Very present for his autistic daughter Angia (10 years old), whom he accompanied to give her the most normal life possible, Samuel Le Bihan admits that it is thanks to this fight that he understood what it is. was to be a father: “I learned a lot of things, what it is to help someone, to support them“. The one who recently found love in the arms of a young model also has a second daughter: Emma-Rose, 3, the fruit of his relationship with Angie Vu Ha.
Father and son have since burst the abscess and left on a good footing: “I talked to him about it, of course.he explained, always in parents first. There is a mea culpa. I would go back if I could but I can’t. You have to live with that. I think there’s a hurt, there’s a guilt, that’s clear. And maybe I gave a lot more to her little sister because I wanted to make up for something that I couldn’t give at the time..” Fortunately, Jules did not hold it against him…