This Thursday, November 7, 2024, Léa Salamé received Franck Gastambide on the France Inter set. In fact, the actor will be appearing in The cagea film available on Netflix on November 15. Asked about his career, the actor was subsequently questioned about his childhood : “It's been a long road, and along the way, we take a beating. And I try to be proud of the journey. It's not always easy” he confided.
Indeed, the actor suffers from dyslexia and dyspraxia.
Although he suffered from it during his childhood, Franck Gastambide is today proud of his career : “I didn't have confidence in myself. So I can't blame those who didn't believe in me. The journey was full of pitfalls.”
Léa Salamé questions Franck Gastambide on an intimate subject
However, in front of Léa Salamé, Franck Gastambide admits to still feeling the consequences of his handicaps: “The list of things I cannot do and for which I feel totally humiliated and ridiculed is long. […] Reciting the alphabet in one go is also very complicated for me”,
he confides with emotion.
Touching statements: “So there is this kind of paradox where sometimes, we people who have invisible disabilities, we will be better than others at certain things and then unable to participate in a board game. It's obviously sometimes very complicated to live with.”
The actor's strong emotion
Last July, at age 45, Franck Gastambide graduated, a first in his life: “When I know the pain it did to my mother to have a kid who was unable to get his college diploma, it’s a lot of emotion. […]
I try not to blame anyone for thinking that because I too was thinking 'What am I going to do with myself?' I don't understand anything about the classes I attend, we're talking about a time when dyslexia wasn't really detected so I was either an imbecile or a lazy person,” he remembers.
But in reality, this diploma means a lot: “Yet I felt like I was neither. I had no way of proving it.” However, he is certain of one thing after all these difficulties encountered which make him fear possible paternity: “I am convinced that the brain compensates, and that what we don't have on one side, we have on the other. For me, it has developed a creativity which allows me to do this job but there is there are things I'm still incapable of. Unfortunately, they're still there.”
