Summary
This April 25, 2024, Julia de Funès speaks about her famous grandfather, Louis de Funès.
She explains that she chose philosophy at university, to avenge the actor, taken for a clown by the critics.
Summary
Granddaughter of Louis de Funès, Julia de Funès grants this April 25, 2024, a cross interview with Sophie Galabru, to Paris Match. They both talk about their illustrious grandfathers. And the first, who grew up with the idea that “Louis was never recognized during his lifetime by the Parisian intelligentsia and he suffered from it”announces having taken his revenge.
Louis de Funès avenged by his granddaughter!
Indeed, “by choosing philosophy” as a career, she admits that she has “ wanted to avenge this unjust intellectual discredit and prove that we were not just a family of clowns » she said to our colleagues. And for good reason, far from the brilliant clown character that his grandpa gave him in his cinema successes (“Rabbi Jacob« , « The big mop “the saga of “ Gendarmes »), another man was hiding.
Julia de Funès explains about him that he “was strikingly shy and humble“. And add to convince yourself of this an anecdote. The little girl remembers: “ My grandfather hid behind a hat and glasses whenever he went out, he avoided social evenings. He was happy in his garden among his roses. Nature was his refuge. He hated the word ‘star’ and everything that goes with it, because he was aware of the tragedy of life“.
Julia de Funès less funny than her grandfather, and she accepts it!
It is ultimately another reputation as a permanent laugher that Louis de Funès has preserved in the eyes of the general public. So much so that Julia de Funès assures us today that it stuck to her skin, as a legacy! In fact, she admits: “ It’s complicated to enter the academic world when your name is from Funès (…) Not serious enough! » Now that she has completed her course, it’s the opposite. We keep telling him: “ She’s still a lot less funny than her grandfather! » And it amuses him a lot!
