His sexuality, his father, or even his France or the vision he has of it… Ahmed Sylla addressed everything, without make-up, facing Audrey Crespo-Mara this Sunday, April 16. Indeed, guest of “Seven to Eight”, the 33-year-old actor confided as rarely as several points of his life that he has always kept secret. In particular his meteoric rise as an actor. If to see it at the cinema, like next April 26 in “Our Tiny Little Wedding” by Frédéric Quiring, has become a habit, Ahmed Sylla perhaps did not think it would come to this today.
His success, he owes it in part to his father as he was able to reveal to the journalist this Sunday, April 16. “He was very learned, very cultured and spoke French very well with his little accent. He said: ‘I don’t like mediocrity’. He was right, he knew that for us it was going to be more difficult”he recalled, giving a more concrete example to explain his father’s words: “When we are black in France, yes sometimes it is more difficult. But not all the time, sometimes we lack a little measure”. But he assures him, he “does not like to say that France is racist”.
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Ahmed Sylla, in love and grateful to France, despite his “racist part”
“We live here and even if it was difficult for my parents, for me, for a whole bunch of people who are in France today, we were still lucky to be here”, he assures. The comedian cut in full presentation at the last Cesar ceremony remembers the arrival of his mother in France, without a diploma with a school stop only in CM2. Despite this premature stoppage, France “allowed to open two shops”. “She fought for it, she worked”he continued.
Regarding his father, Ahmed Sylla is once again grateful to the country that saw him grow up: “When my father fell ill and could no longer work, the Secours populaire came to bring us shopping”. In fact, the 33-year-old actor cannot “not [se] say that France is racist”. “Yes, part of France is racist, but France is also giving it a chance. France gives me the chance to do my job”, he recalled. A declaration of love to his country, as Jean Dujardin was able to do before him, which will please some people, like bringing others out of their hinges.
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