Saturday, November 5, 2022, in the show What an era! broadcast on France 2, Gad Elmaleh came to promote the film he made, Stay a little longer, which deals with religion within his own clan. In this work, he shows his parents and his sister, Judith. Faced with Léa Salamé, he therefore came to talk about his relationship to religion and it turns out that he has opted for a very, very healthy, and spiritual life.
“Why don’t you give us a midlife crisis like all those guys? You buy yourself a very low car, you fuck yourself with a very tall little chick and you stop pissing us off“, declares his sister in the film. Words which inspired the replacement of Laurent Ruquier who then rebounded: “You don’t smoke anymore, you don’t drink anymore, you do retreats in monasteries, what’s the next step, sexual abstinence, it’s over, you don’t fuck anymore?“
Absolutely unexpected words coming from her and which shocked, while making the assembly laugh. Gad Elmaleh remained silent, frightened. It was then that Léa Salamé revealed why she had dared such an intervention: “I had made a bet with the producer. Whether I could say that or not. I won.” And to add:He told me, ‘You’ll never make it.’ I said: ‘Yes, I will do it’.“And she did!
After these confessions, Gad Elmaleh insisted that this sequence not be cut during the editing: “I think the magic of TV is keeping the fact that I’m asking you to keep something in the edit.“
During the program, the comedian and director agreed to talk about his ex Charlotte Casiraghi, mother of his son Raphaël (9 years old). After finding the photo of her and him”beautiful“, he told a hell of an anecdote about his mother and his first time on the Rock: “The first time she met Prince Albert, in his head, he had to bow. Except that she took out a curtsy from Marrakech, something like it was capoeira.“A funny moment!