Jérôme Commandeur talks about his bright idea that could offer him another career (VIDEO)

Could Jérôme Commandeur become a great business leader instead of embracing the comedian and actor career we know? On Tuesday, June 21, the 46-year-old artist guest-starred in Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine’s “C à vous” to discuss “Irréductible”, which she directed and won the Grand Prix du Festival. de Alpe d’Huez comedy.

But the person who made himself known by joining the “Graines de star” program in the late 1990s was challenged by an anecdote as a child by Mohamed Bouhafsi. “I learned that you create ‘Hello croissants’ long before Uber Eats, Deliveroo, Just Eat. So could you explain it to us and finally tell us clearly that you are very pioneering for the community…”, started.

Jérôme Commandeur then came back to this surprising idea he had before anyone else. “JI was right too soon. I was 10 years old, we will go to the bakery, we will distribute croissants to people, because he does not exist, I said to myself. Two business hypotheses popped into my mind. Shall I take an order over the phone and pick up the croissant from the bakery and deliver it? Otherwise I emptied the croissant bakeries in the area because there aren’t a dozen great ideas, I buy 200 croissants and then we do everything from home, it goes much faster”, previously resettled. And to continue this “genius shot”. “Frankly, I chose hypothesis two, which is the healthiest from a business point of view. My mother came downstairs in her dressing gown one Sunday morning, and there were 200 croissants lined up on the table. I had distributed the little tickets in the mailboxes. And at noon, no calls. 200 hard croissants on the table, I emptied my piggy bank, I went to my room to cry, slamming the door”, He remembered, made the columnists laugh.

But this bitter failure has had a backlash, not least. “The story has a downfall. Six months later – I had completely forgotten this story, I was on my way – at 6 a.m. on a Sunday morning the phone was ringing and there were no cell phones at the time. So at 6 o’clock on a Sunday morning, you take it, it may be dead, and I hear my dad say ‘no, no, we’re not delivering croissants. I run and say ‘yes here’ and went to hand out a croissant”, Explained Jérôme Commandeur. The happy ending that got Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine excited: “This is gorgeous, the man will remember from little Jérome Commandeur, who brought him croissants all his life.”

LT