“I want to be loved better, even if it means being loved less,” says Franck Dubosc on the poster for “10 days again without mom”

Franck Dubosc is in turn comedian, screenwriter, director and actor. He made his stage debut with one man show I didn’t tell you?, Romantic and his character of mythomaniac always in the seduction and in the show. And then there was the movie Camping by Fabien Onteniente in 2006 who revealed it to the general public, followed by Incognito (2009) and Barbecue (2014) by Éric Lavaine or even Billy and Buddy by Alexandre Charlot and Franck Magnier (2013).

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This Wednesday April 12, 2023, Franck Dubosc is starring in the film 10 more days without mom by Ludovic Bernard with Aure Atika. This is the sequel to the first part released in 2020. He plays the role of a devoted family man to the point of being a stay-at-home father. He will have the opportunity to go on vacation, but on the station platform, his wife has a professional opportunity. At the last moment, he finds himself alone in the mountains to manage his four children.

franceinfo: This role in 10 more days without mom, you reminded you of your role as a father in real life?

Frank Dubosc: Yes of course. Holidays with children: I just had a friend on the phone who said to me: “Call me on weekdays, I’m less overwhelmed“so the holidays… In addition for those who have the chance to go skiing, it’s the most complicated thing with children because it’s very dressed up. So yes, my holidays are very similar to that even still today with my children of 10 and 13 years old.

What’s amazing when you watch this film is that it’s actually classified in the comedy box and at the same time, it’s not really into comedy. We are really in between. We discover you differently and more and more with real sensitivity, a desire to say something else.

Yes, so it’s not to say something else or a desire to finally say it. Indeed, I deal more with more real characters, even if this one falls a lot on skis and clowns around. There’s a reality behind every time that, not that I’m looking for, but maybe for the sake of saving myself, I end up showing through and seeming a little bit more like myself.

As a child, you were a dreamer, quite shy… And to fight against this shyness, you did judo and above all, you invented a life for yourself. Is this shyness and this parallel world that you have created for yourself, the starting point for becoming an actor?

Yes, to be someone else. When I was little, I invented a dog that I didn’t have, I gave pictures of Belle and Sebastian of the TV magazine that I had taken myself and you could still see the writing on the side. But my friends were my age and they believed in it. We were seven, eight years old.

As a child, I wanted people to love me and I clearly had, I always have a bit of this, the impression that people would never love me for what I really was, so I invented myself to be loved.

Frank Dubosc

at franceinfo

When we look at your journey, you have done almost everything. That is, you were the pilot of the ship from the show Time X of the Bogdanov brothers, your first film role was given to you by Michel Lang in the film Over to us boys. Then, oral expression teacher at the professional training school for the bars of the Paris Court of Appeal, it is still not nothing. It seems that you have been looking for yourself for a very long time, that you had this need to be able to convince each time.

It’s not looking for me. The problem is that the others weren’t looking for me. I’ve even been the dry sausage in commercials for charcutiers, I’ve done a lot of stuff. But I’ll tell you, even after doing a movie lead or two, young, you said Over to us boys, there had been others and everything. I found myself doing extras in Patrick Sébastien shows, where I was the policeman who arrested C Jérôme to put him on a cop bus. I said to myself: it’s the only way to exist, people will have to see me at some point, I have to move.

Your shows more For you, audience will allow you to be adopted by the public and this adoption will be dazzling. How did you experience this ascent? Because you’ve been looking for yourself for a very long time and all of a sudden it explodes.

Yes. I saw him and didn’t see him at the same time because I had other things, other family concerns at the time. My father is dying while the success was rising. I had more like a feeling that something was being given to me on one side and something was being taken away from me on the other, so I was walking on eggshells. I didn’t really see the transition. I necessarily felt it, but I did not live with pleasure.

We have the feeling that this humor allows you to be on stage what you are not necessarily in life.

When I understood that this is where it might explode one day, I learned. I didn’t know how to do it, I didn’t have the physique, I didn’t necessarily have the gift of writing stuff, but I learned on my own. I wrote my texts. Sometimes, I went towards vulgarities which were not me, but which made laugh. So I took it easy to say to myself: if I want a lot of public, I’m going to have to hit, I hit wide, so I escape a bit from myself, but that’s not more evil.

When I play, I escape a bit from myself, that’s why I was able to do Patrick Chirac and put on a bathing suit. It’s because it’s not me. If it had been me… Me, I don’t show up in a bathing suit like that. But Patrick Chirac, I can show it.

Frank Dubosc

at franceinfo

In 10 more days without momwe begin to perceive that you are moving on.

Yes, maybe because I’m tired of myself. You know, we get tired. We see it more and more, there are people who do the same job all their lives and who are fed up, who are tired. My luck is that I don’t need to stop to rest. I can go on, not in another area, but in another way. It feels good to let go. I let go.

Is it hard to let go then?

It’s very hard. Because first of all, letting go in the cinema when you’re an actor and you’ve had a lot of audiences by being very funny, by doing comedy, of course, you know you’re going to lose some. Because there are people who want to see me funny and that’s it. But I want to be loved better, even if it means being loved less.