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French actor and comedian Dany Boon has achieved great popular success for around fifteen years now, to the point of making him one of the highest paid personalities in French cinema. The opportunity for the unforgettable Antoine Bailleul from Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis, to savor his revenge for the derogatory comments made by his former school principal.
From “tramp” to millionaire, Dany Boon looks back on his difficult years when he owed everyone money
Success has not stopped for fifteen years. The former comedian knew a meteoric rise in cinema, notably thanks to the enormous popular success of Welcome to the Ch’tiswhere the Northerner forms a delicious duo with . Then, many other hits at the box office: Supercondriaque (still with Kad Merad), Radin !, Crazy Raid or The Ch’tite family. Even if his career remains exceptional.
Dany Boon thus became one of: in 2011, for example, the list of the highest paid French people in the world of cinema placed him in first position, with no less than 7.5 million euros pocketed that year. A real one for which he did not seem destined in his earliest childhood.
Invited by Europe 1 in the show, Dany Boon looked back on his years quite difficult at school. “My director told me I would become a tramp”he says. His school reports have also inspired some of his shows: “They told me ‘I could do better’, I did a sketch”. Even if these remarks from his teachers may have had an impact on him, Dany Boon jokes about it today: “Before, we talked about ‘lazy people’, now about ‘attention disorders’, I have fun with that”he says.
Dany Boon, “tramp”? He tells
Despite everything, the actor has before achieving success. Particularly in the 1980s, when he migrated from Belgium to Paris. Unable to find housing, Dany Boon was forced to live on the streets. “At that time, I was doing street performances: mime, clown and guitar. It was really complicated also because I didn’t have a living. I was worse than poor. It’s that is to say that I was in debt and therefore banned from banking. I owed everyone money.he said in 2014 in the columns of Parisian.
“Most of the time, I didn’t eat enough. When we went to the restaurant, located next to Cours Simon, I said: ‘No, no, I’m not taking anything.‘And I asked for a jug of water. I only ate a basket of bread”he added. Faced with these moments of great difficulty, the words of his former director necessarily had a particular resonance.
Everything will change in 1993, when he is noticed during a one-man show. Then, he had a series of small roles in the cinema from the 2000s onwards, before in 2008, a famous film, reconnecting with his roots, allowed him to achieve success: Welcome to the Ch’tis. A success which remains to the point that it is today.
