It is a touching and shameless Franck Dubosc who spoke this Sunday, July 10, 2022 in the new issue of seven to eight on TF1. Interviewed by journalist Audrey Crespo-Mara, the 58-year-old comedian spoke at length about the complicated relationship he had with his father Lucien who died twenty years ago. In this interview, Franck Dubosc remembered the lack of affection his father felt towards his son: “It wasn’t a time when people said ‘I love you’ to their children, even though they loved them. I don’t think his dad told him much either. Neither his mother (…) I always had trouble receiving ‘I love you’ and even less from my father“, said Franck Dubosc.
Son of a worker, Franck Dubosc had a dream, that of becoming an actor and going to Paris. A dream he realized by performing at the Olympia in 2002. At that time, his father was seriously ill with Charlot’s disease. “My father saw that I had made the Olympia. For him, it was the consecration. He could not move because he was sick. He gave me a drawing that I still have in my diary. My father drew like a child because he could no longer use his hands“, reported Franck Dubosc, moved to tears.
The great pride he should have had is that I am a real son, not a real actor.
While he had a chaotic relationship with his father for several years, Franck Dubosc saw in him a real sign of recognition and pride as testified by the father of Milhan and Raphaël: “He heard people talking to him about me and said, ‘He’s my son! Franck Dubosc is my son.’ And one day, when I was told this for the first time, I was like, ‘Really? My father says that?’ But he never told me. I think that between us, it was not my job that was the most important. The great pride he should have had is that I am a real son, not a real actor.“
Twenty years after the death of his father to whom he paid tribute in the TV movie The last part on TF1, Franck Dubosc seems to have taken a step back and repaired his secret wounds as he expressed in front of Audrey Crespo-Mara: “I didn’t tell her ‘I love you’. I told him with my eyes. We took each other’s hand. Does this replace years of arguments? Years of misunderstanding? I do not know. We said what to say to each other, that we forgave each other. Taking hands was a way of saying: I forgive you. We are still from the same family.“