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– Why should you watch this series?
Ramzy Bedia.
–
To understand carbon tax fraud.
It was foggy in my mind but, reading the script, I understood all the dimensions of this story: political, human, ecological, intimate...
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Money and Blood
My character ?
He tries to conform to the image of gangsters that he discovered in the cinema, but what I like about him is that he is both exuberant and very dark.
Everything that could be caricatured in him is overpowered by the complexity of the story.
What do I share with him?
Where I grew up, in Gennevilliers, near Paris, there were people like him in the generation preceding mine.
For them I was “a little one”, for whom they always had a nice word.
As a kid, before I understood everything, I admired these guys who started from zero and who, thanks to their cleverness, managed to evolve in spheres so different from ours.
How does the series resonate with today’s world?
It tells the story of the class struggle, the white-collar workers facing the poor who, without outside help, are ready to do anything to get by.
It also recounts the cynicism of the time: the carbon tax was created to support the ecological cause.
However, even when we try to save our children, some see it as an opportunity to take advantage of the system.
Is talking about myself in promos a chore?
I already have trouble talking about myself in an intimate circle.
In front of a microphone, it's torture.
As a kid, before I understood everything, I admired these guys who started from zero and who, thanks to their cleverness, managed to evolve in spheres so different from ours
Ramzy Bedia
Wooden tongue or too sharp?
We are a little forced to use wooden language.
It’s the times that want that.
Everything is taken over, distorted.
I lock myself, including on the valves, but it's painful for me.
Do I lie in interviews?
It happens to me.
A journalist is neither a police officer, nor a judge, nor my shrink.
I don't risk anything by telling him little lies.
A question I dread?
All those of a political nature.
I'm Ramzy from
H
and
La Tour Montparnasse infernale
, I act like an idiot all day long, and I don't see how I would be legitimate to answer questions that go beyond my scope.
I fear any political question
Ramzy Bedia
Still the sacred fire?
Fortunately !
While I answer you, I look through the window of the delivery drivers: it is more difficult for them to have the sacred fire than for me who does a passion job.
What do I like people to say about me?
That I evolve without betraying myself.
I really admire actors who alternate between serious films and big comedies.
I'm thinking of Kad Merad, who impresses me as much in
Baron noir
as in
Pamela Rose
.
Or to Benoît Poelvoorde.
What do I think of myself in the morning when I get to makeup?
I imagine the director who, from the first take, understands his mistake: “But why did I take it?
He’s so bad!”
And then, at the second glance in the mirror, I tell myself that in addition to being worthless, I'm ugly.
What do I like people to say about me?
That I evolve without betraying myself
Ramzy Bedia
The last time I was proud of myself?
When Xavier Giannoli told me he loved what I did on the series.
I had dreamed of working with him since
Originally
.
What awaits me for 2024?
The broadcast of
Terminal
, the series by Jamel Debbouze on Canal+, and of Comedy Class, a radio show for comedians on Prime Video that I host with Éric Judor.
I did these two projects to find my friends!
But now, I'm taking a break to enjoy my children.
Of Money and Blood,
by Xavier Giannoli, on Canal+ and MyCanal.