Long before collaborating in “Retirement home”, Kev Adams and Gérard Depardieu had one of their first exchanges backstage at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. It was on the occasion of the 39th Cesar ceremony in 2014. And the young first reveals this October 7 what the “legend of French cinema“, as he faced a heavy blow.
“Not funny, but brave”
In his show “the real me“, available since Friday on Netflix, the favorite comic of teenagers, with a career already 10 years old, remembers the great moment of embarrassment he experienced when he presented the award for Best animated film to the Césars. This evening there, live on Canal Plus, he had explained to the assembly “It’s not the most prestigious award but I don’t care, I’m so happy. I’m giving a César award, it’s the first time in my life, maybe the last. I take full advantage”.
Ecstatic, he had even dared to take a selfie from the stage. A gesture (yet taken up 2 days later by Ellen DeGeneres at the Oscars with Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, and Meryl Streep), but which the French public received very badly. Leaving almost without any applause or laughter, Kev Adams felt “like the pariah of the Caesars”.
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To his fans, he confides that it was Gérard Depardieu who consoled him! “He said to me: ‘Bah, are you okay?’ “Crazy! It’s all idiots anyway. I found it very brave, what you did.”“And to admit nevertheless: “Not funny, but brave”.
Backfire
A memory that remained engraved in the memory of Kev Adams, who also refused to be the master of ceremonies for the Caesars, a few years later, not yet feeling enough “legitimacy” to be.
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