Love sticks to his skin. When he’s not playing it on stage, he sings it… or even writes it. On October 6, 2022, Elie Semoun released a first novel with Robert Laffont editions, entitled Count to you, telling a romance that seems very familiar. And for good reason, these 240 pages are inspired by real events, as the author confirmed in an interview with the magazine. Gala.
It must be said that the secret was not very well kept. The hero of this book is called Elie and his fictional bride, Héloïse, is reminiscent of some stages of his own love journey. Just like this idyll that he tells, which is barely born and suffocates, quickly, because of the daily life and the past of each one. “This character is an amalgam of several women that I have loved: Anaïs, Joséphine, Juliettehe confirms. It is none in particular and all of them at the same time.“
If Elie Semoun passes in his book for a man “worried, jealous, selfish, suffocating and emotionally dependent“, he does not despair for all that, concerning the continuation of his own life. Single, but resolutely romantic, the actor waits for the next chapter to open in a natural way. “I can’t wait to be in love again, for the adrenaline rushhe explains. We’ll see.“
Father of a grown-up son named Antoine, a 27-year-old painter, Elie Semoun has known some pretty stories. The actor, who will celebrate his 59th birthday on October 16, had his only child in 1995 with Annie Florence Jeannesson, whom he married in 1996. He was also in a relationship, from 2003 to 2008, with the dancer Juliette Gernez. It was another woman in her life who pushed her, however, to take up the pen. His mother, Denise Malka, was a French teacher and educated him in books. Died at the age of 37 from hepatitis, she must be delighted, up there, to see her child flourish in letters…
Find the full interview with Elie Semoun in the magazine Gala n°1530 of October 6, 2022.