It is an uncompromising Franck Gastambide who revealed himself this weekend. Magazine guest “Seven to Eight” to be the subject of the famous “Portrait of the week” this Sunday, February 13 on TF1, Franck Gastambide returned to his delicate school career. “The first part of my life, the phrase I’ve heard the most is: ‘What are we going to do with him?’ “he confided Franco to journalist Audrey Crespo-Mara.
The comedian and director of “Pattaya” and “Taxi 5” then made no secret of having experienced school as a theater of humiliation for him. “‘How many are you in class? Second or third’, ‘How many averages do you have?’ and ‘What do you want to do later?’ Each of these questions were potential humiliations. I didn’t let anyone humiliate me but school was a humiliating place for me because I knew everything was too complicated and I didn’t know why everything was so complicated”testified the 43-year-old artist.
Difficulties that could very well have plunged him into the dark side by sinking into delinquency. “I remember that moment very well. The moment when you can give up, when you can make the wrong choices because inevitably, the disappointment of the parents creates anger, and the response to that anger sometimes, for the angry teenager that I was, is to say, ‘ fuck you all and I’ll manage’ “, he confided.
But his love of animals allowed him to gradually infiltrate the world of cinema and we know the rest. His analytical skills and his hypersensitivity were decisive in his success. Because Franck Gastambide is diagnosed, HPI. A form of High Potential associated with a very high IQ. A name that the actor does not like too much. “This term, it immediately elicits a reaction of self-defense from those who are not”, he admits before getting annoyed by the remarks he may have to face. “High Intellectual Potential, to make the films you make, there is no need…”, he throws.