“We come home and I want to call my father. Everything is big. (…) I see that I am a little too excited. The garden is huge but you see for her (the first lady at the time, editor’s note) it’s normal, it’s her garden. And I say, ‘But you have picnics and everything? and barbecues?“, she begins to tell, in front of her hilarious friends.
But it’s during the buffet”sweet and salty, too elaborate“for her, let everything go wrong.”There’s a butler. I remember to cut the cheese, to help him, I want to take him off the tray. I’m not going to cut my cheese on someone’s real hand. But he looks at me and I understand that you shouldn’t do what I’m doing. So I say, ‘You know what? I don’t want cheese’“, she explains as a drink is served to her, for her, “an end-of-meal cocktail“.
“There is a rose petal, I remember. So I take it, I’m so happy, I feel like Audrey Hepburn. And I drink it all at once“, recalls the mother of little Ishmael, who then hears his partners laughing at his side.And I raise my head and there I see the president and his companion [avec les mains dedans]. It was a finger wash ! And I remember that I said to myself that at the Elysée, even the finger wash is good” she concludes, hilarious in front of her friends.
A beautiful anecdote that must have made Léa Seydoux and Abdellatif Kechiche laugh, whom Internet users adored, just as much as that of Leila Bekhti with Jean Reno or Géraldine Nakache with her brother Olivier, co-director ofUntouchables, Our happy days Where In Therapy.