Invited on the BFMTV set this Wednesday, January 18 as part of his return to the stage, Michel Sardou looks back on his career.
And among other things, on the day when his song
Les ricains
was censored by the Gaullist authorities for fear of what the lyrics could evoke.
“The important thing […] is sincerity.
Be sincere, say what you want.
You can fool yourself, it's true, we have the right to be wrong
, ”says the interpreter of
I'm going to love you
.
And when the journalist bounces on this sentence by saying that it can create controversy, the singer shrugs his shoulders.
"Who isn't creating controversy right now?"
he asks before citing the example of Omar Sy, having recently been at the heart of a controversy … in spite of himself.
An episode that marked Michel Sardou who, more than two weeks later, decided to react to it on the set of BFMTV.
"You have Omar Sy, who is making a film about skirmishers and who has the misfortune to say that we have somewhat forgotten the old ones - which is not true by the way, he is wrong, we have not forgotten the skirmishers - but immediately the whole of France stands on its lugs to say “how, Omar Sy, what does he say?
He says that
, ” underlines Michel Sardou.
"There are things that are very stupid"
As a reminder, the actor had given, at the beginning of January, an interview to the
Parisian
as part of the theatrical release of his new film
Tirailleurs
.
In it, Omar Sy wondered if the French were more moved by the war in Ukraine than by other conflicts.
"I'm asking a question, I'm not asserting anything, no controversy!
Calm down !
I'm wondering !
I don't know anything about it, I'm not specialized.
I am practically not French according to some”
, he had reacted the next day on the set of “Daily”.
“
What I said, I said.
I think so and I accept it.
[...] One comes to seek me with polemics so that I return in the explanations
, affirmed then the actor.
Blame it on social media?
This is what the 75-year-old singer, who himself has no account, thinks.
“There are things that are very smart, and there are things that are very dumb.
And especially nasty.
What I don't like is the wickedness of some people.
When you say something, it's misunderstood, misunderstood or deliberately misunderstood and immediately you get hit on the face, so I'm not interested
, ”says Michel Sardou.