Although he is one of the best-known artists in France, Michel Fugain was not immediately destined for art. After failing the Baccalaureate three times, the man who didn’t like studying so much enrolled in medical school. A choice motivated mainly by the fact that his father himself was a doctor. “I had no idea. At the time, a doctor thought his son was going to be a doctor. When I was 21, I wrote a letter to my father. I told him: ‘Dad, I wouldn’t not medicine’. I leave the letter for him on the kitchen table and I run away. I go to a friend’s house for a week”, recalled the singer and actor, in the show A Sunday in the Country, broadcast. on France 2, Sunday 5 January 2025. But now, his father does not appreciate this hasty departure: “After a week, he said to my mother: ‘Tell her to come home’”. Michel Fugain agrees to return to his parents, not without apprehension. It must be said that the young Michel Fugain of the time has second news to announce to his parents.
Not only does he not want to study medicine, as his father did before him, but he is also destined for a very different life path. “I tuck my tail between my legs. I see him, he comes into the living room. ‘What is this? What do you want to do?’ And I tell him: ‘I want to do cinema’ He doesn’t know what that means. He doesn’t know, it’s not his thing”, explains the singer of the title A beautiful story. It was then that his father (…)
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