At 43, Franck Gastambide succeeds in everything he touches: his films are hits at the cinema, his series Valid broke all Canal+ records and is starring in one of Netflix’s French successes, the action feature film Tirelessly. A professional life at 100 an hour for this 43-year-old actor who had a complex for a long time with an invisible handicap, a very heavy dyslexia.
A disorder discovered late in life, which forces him to work more than the others and which he tries, day after day, to transform into strength, in particular by talking about it a lot in the media. However, this difference often remains a problem for him, and especially in his private life, as he explained to the cameras of the TF1 show 50 ‘Inside. An excerpt from his interview broadcast next Saturday has already been unveiled.
“I have an invisible disability, dyslexia, which has ruined my life a bit. […] I never said to myself that I would have the skills to be a screenwriter, I who have always been last in class. What I heard the most when I was little was ‘what are we going to do with him’ and I’m so scared to have children who have my disability, who may have the complexities that I’ve encountered in my life“, he says, honestly.
A private life he rarely talks about, discreet. In a relationship for several years with actress Sabrina Ouazani (despite rumors of separation), he nevertheless thinks of having children soon. “I’m quite terrified of this [la dyslexie] but i feel the time is coming“, he concludes, mysterious, while he is currently embarking on the production of a new film.