"The main actor does not want to share the poster with an Arab" : Roschdy Zem remembers a terrible moment in his career

Comedian Roschdy Zem will play in the movie on Wednesday, May 10. Mother He plays Sabri Lahlali, a middle school vice principal whose son is about to get his patent and is willing to do anything to have the best academic record possible.

“I am presented with more complex characters with more nuanced histories. We are no longer politically correct when it comes to casting an immigrant child. The danger that awaited us was that we had to systematically set an example, and I saw that banning us from border roles was a real form of contempt.“, admitted Roschdy Zem to the newspaper Release this Tuesday, May 9th.

But the 57-year-old actress took advantage of this interview to come back to a particularly traumatic event for her. When he was hired to star in a blockbuster movie in the 90s, the actor was dismissed from the project by the director.

“We have a problem, the lead actor doesn’t want to share the account with an Arab. Today I am still angry with him and feel sorry for him, but at the time I felt humiliated.”, he stated.

It wasn’t always easy when Roschdy Zem, the son of a Moroccan immigrant, set out in the middle of art 7.

“Cinema is not for us immigrant children. In my generation, that of Jamels [Debbouze], Sami Bouajila, we only have Delon, Belmondo, Depardieu references. The only actor who looks like us is Élise, starring Marie-Josée Nat, or the Algerian worker in real life (written by Michel Drach), but we never see him again after this movie. We were the first professional players. Tahar Rahim, Reda Kateb knew it was possible, they were better armed. But back then, in my city, everyone was laughing at me calling me ‘actor’.‘ he said in an interview with World in 2016. He could still count on his mother’s support. “The only person who believes this is my mother. Roschdy was the first name of his favorite actor Rushdy Abaza in the 1950s.she admitted.

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