Comedian Gad Elmaleh was a guest on “8:30 p.m. on Sunday” on France 2 on January 5, 2025. With Laurent Delahousse, the actor explained why he does not have French nationality.
“I don’t have a French passport, I don’t have French citizenship”began Gad Elmaleh in “8:30 p.m. Sunday” on France 2 this Sunday, January 5, 2025. Laurent Delahousse met Gad Elmaleh in Montmartre, where the artist has just acquired the famous cabaret “Chez Michou”, reminds France tvinfo.
Moroccan comedian and actor born in 1971 in Casablanca, Gad Elmaleh has been popular in France since his show entitled The Other is mein 2005.
“It’s not a belief”
He has also lived in France for several years but never acquired French nationality. “It's not a conviction. To be very honest, I started the process a very long time ago, and it was such a job that I gave up on the matter”he revealed on France 2, taken up by Here.
-“I liked the idea of…”
His choice is also linked to a more personal reason: “I liked the idea of being an immigrant in France for whom things are going very well and who lives the life of the French, who does not need to become French to be loved, appreciated, helped initially by the French.”
New show
Gad Elmaleh is starting a new show, Himselfat the Dôme de Paris from January 28. He will then be on tour throughout France until June 2025.
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