The audience of the Tours Convention Center turned out in droves to attend Sacha Guitry’s play on Sunday, December 5, Don’t listen, ladies. In the casting, there is a certain … Michel Sardou.
The 74-year-old star now only takes to the stage to don his comedian costume. “I didn’t want to play something serious, serious, heavy. I wanted to make people laugh, a quality laugh. Guitry, it’s still well written, it’s not the talk of every day”, he told the New Republic adding that he is satisfied to see “thees delighted people, having fun “,” especially after this difficult period with the Covid “. “Laughter, for me, is the salt of the theater (…) To hear a room laugh, that gives me a lot of pleasure. When they go out, they are happy, they tell you ‘we had a very good evening ‘. For me, the theater begins and it ends there “.
“I have never been a racist in my life ! “
During this interview, the interpreter of The river of our childhood was questioned in particular the label that we were able to give him throughout his career. “It was the fashion at the time, I was the only one who broached subjects and had different points of view from other singers of my generation. Obviously, I was the first to be attacked. As soon as you come out of the theater. Normally, you get attacked, that’s for sure. It calmed down. Now I’m part of the furniture. I’m not being attacked anymore. “
Michel Sardou has been the subject of many criticisms, the fault of some of his songs or phrases including the one spoken in 2004, during a concert in Brussels: “Now that he has a chalet in Gstaad, Hallyday will be able to put his Vietcong (Jade Hallyday, note) on skis”.
“I’ve never been a racist in my life! Neither reaction! I don’t care. They can say it but they’re dumb. I’m not a racist man, never in my life! I’m a liberal . I was more a Gaullist than a Communist (…) but that ended there. My songs are songs and are only songs. It does not matter more than that. A song is used to to walk, it is used to dance, it is used to dream. It is not used to be elected. “
Final focus on the subject?
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