After Found Guilty in the cinema and the series The snake on Netflix, Tahar Rahim is already back to the delight of the public. He plays in Don Juan, alongside Virginie Efira, expected on May 23 and presented at Cannes Première during the Festival. He confided in an interview for the magazine Paris Matchtalking about his meteoric success and how he manages his absence from his clan.
Revealed by a prophet by Jacques Audiard, the actor Tahar Rahim has since taken his place aboard a rocket that has taken his career off to the heights. So much so that he even won two nominations at the American Golden Globes ceremony. But this frenzy of filming in the four corners of the world can have consequences: taking the big head, being absent for his family … Luckily, he can count on his wife Leïla Bekhti. “The entourage, we tend to hear that it allows you to keep your feet on the ground, but if you are over 40, if you take the melon, there is a problem! You’re supposed to have understood what fame is. So, at this stage, loved ones are there to help deal with adversity, pressure, real life“, he says.
And Tahar Rahim, married since 2010 to Leïla Bekhti, to add: “We also go through the same ordeals as everyone else. And when your wife does the same job, the advantage is that she knows what it involves. I left eight months for The snake then Found Guilty… It’s huge ! It’s hard for me, hard for my family, and there, fortunately, she knows.” Indeed, the actress can also testify to the loneliness when you shoot away from her family for a long time since she notably spent 4 months in Lapland for the needs of the series. polar day. There is no doubt that the couple manages to organize themselves according to the filming of one and the other, in particular to take care of their three children. In 2017, the lovers welcomed a little boy, in 2020 it was a little girl who came to fill them with happiness and, in 2021, another surprise baby also showed up!
The full interview with Tahar Rahim can be found in Paris Matchon newsstands May 12, 2022.