Being a celebrity is not a smooth ride. If today he has a string of successes on stage, and offers in cinema and television, Booderwho will soon be found on TF1 in a new comedy called The Nanny, has not always had an easy life. In an interview given to Éric Dussart and Jade on RTL this Saturday, November 11, the comedian who appears regularly with Arthur and with Cyril Hanouna, returned to the long crossing of the desert that he experienced after leaving the film Beur sur la ville , who knew a resounding failure, which plunged him overnight into the hell of the RSA.
“I am very rich because I have a close-knit family who loves me. Money (…) if you do this job for the money, stop immediately. Because it’s been 21 years, and it’s only today that I’m starting to be a little happy to make a living from it. Afterwards Arab on the city (…) I didn’t work, I didn’t have inspiration, I didn’t write; the film’s score didn’t do an awful lot. I took a real slap. I said to myself (…) there you go, there was a little moment of desert, and I found myself at the RSA. It was funny, when I went to the RSA, people took a photo with me in the street and people didn’t know where I was going“ confided the comedian who presented his first film at the start of the year called The big circus.
He refuses to fall into “miserabilism”
If Arab on the city was a failure, with just 400,000 entries, Booder did not become demoralized, however, and continued to work. In this comedy, broadcast several times on television, he starred alongside Issa Doumbia, Gérard Jugnot, Josiane Balasko and François-Xavier Demaison. Revealed by Neuilly his mother in 2009, it was not until 2016 that the comedian saw his career explode, thanks to media exposure granted to him by Arthur and Cyril Hanouna with VTEP, TPMP or The Big Laugh. Today, Booder lives better, and can count on his family.
Talking about the life he led as a child, Booder maintains a modest life, but does not want to criticize the life his parents gave him: “I’m not into misery, I didn’t grow up in poverty. I was in a modest family. I always ate when I was hungry, but never what I wanted. I’m still a tenant, I still live in the neighborhood where I grew up, I help my parents, I help my brothers. We’re not a family based on money.” explains the one who on TF1 now occasionally hosts Friday everything is Booder, a variation for children of VTEP.