Lying on a sofa as in a psychoanalyst, Michel BOUJENAH lends himself to the game of "Back to Back" with Catherine CEYLAC. He tells of his recurring nightmare of waking up and not being at home. If he were a psychoanalyst he would psychoanalyze racist and anti-Semitic people to make them understand that this is their own neurosis. The anguish he would not like to pass on to his children is "The fear of tomorrow".
Michel BOUJENAH explains to Catherine CEYLAC that the enormous success of the film "3 men and a basket" has unbalanced him for two years. His status as an actor who writes and plays his shows suited him: "I don’t like being in the light". He talks in particular about television programs where he discredited himself: "I went everywhere, I talked all the time...we often say bullshit and we give a false image of ourselves". He just wanted to be an actor who He never wanted to be a star but just to be an actor who writes shows.
In preview of "The Guardian Angel" at the Olympia, Maxo BOUTBOUL, the character who is the double of Michel BOUJENAH in his show, interviews his creator Michel BOUJENAH. some thoughts on the theme of the show and on the celebrity that gives "the big head" sometimes.
In his Parisian apartment, Michel BOUJENAH, 20 years old and theatre director, presents himself. He talks about a fight that he says he is fighting and the young people of his age to exist. He speaks of his vision of the theatre which he conceives as committed to reality. We then find him in the Arènes de Lutèce in Paris where he rehearses a small troupe of actors (Jean-Pierre, Virginie, Richard, etc.). This is his first television.
Very good atmosphere with France ROCHE and Noël MAMERE who interview Michel BOUJENAH, rewarded the day before the César for the best second role in the film "3 hommes et un couffin" by Coline SERREAU. The actor confides that he did not know what to say on stage when he received his Caesar, he who usually admits to having a "burning nerve" when he plays a show or even on television. He thought it was important to share his reward with the film team: "It’s stupid to be alone when we’re happy...". He jokes about his next participation in the Oscars ceremony: "I will rent a car, the beginning of the car, he will have arrived at the hotel, the back he will not have left the airport".
Michel BOUJENAH confides to Thierry ARDISSON that going on stage every evening requires a great rigor of life: "The show is a constraint, an infernal discipline" but for nothing in the world it would change job. He says he feels uncomfortable on television and says "at home it’s a theatre scene".
Interview with Michel BOUJENAH who plays "Albert" at the Montparnasse theatre in Paris. He dedicates this show to the Tunisian Jewish community. He talks about the reactions of the people of the community who saw his show and who tell him about his character: "Don’t take the accent anymore, you showed that we could make people laugh and move, now, go back to French completely...". He wonders about the importance of this Tunisian Jewish accent in his upcoming shows: "Raimu, he had an accent, and then?" he concludes.
Michel FIELD invited Michel BOUJENAH on the eve of the release of the film "The navel of the world" by Ariel ZEITOUN, in which he plays Bajou, an obese man ready to do anything to succeed socially. Michel BOUJENAH explains that falling into such a role is unexpected for an actor: "It is true that we actors, we think we are the navel of the world... When you’re 15 and you dream of being an actor, you say to yourself one day I’ll play characters where I will transform...". He confides that he used the mythology of the great roles to interpret his character: "The belly of Bajou, it is like the nose of Cyrano".
Michel BOUJENAH confides in Catherine CEYLAC about his arrival from Tunisia in France at the age of 11, which he describes as a trauma. He explains that he had a hair on his tongue that his mother tried to make disappear by sending him to a theatre class (Simon class). He also recounts suffering from his first years at school in France: "I was Tunisian, Jewish, Arab, I claimed all these identities".
Interview with Michel BOUJENAH who plays "Albert" at the Montparnasse theatre in Paris. He gives the two main reasons that led him to write this show whose character is a young French Jew of Tunisian origin. The first reason is that he was once told "You should stop being an actor, with the bagout you have you are able to sell, with your origins", which upset him. The second reason is that the teaching of theatre to children brought him back to his own childhood that he wanted to tell it: "I remembered that I was Jewish, Arab, French, Tunisian...".
Plateau avec Olivier Minne et Lucette Benessiano qui prépare la recette de "Brik à l'oeuf", son fils Eric Benessiano et Michel Boujenah à ses côtés. Ce dernier improvise un petit numéro à propos de ce plat très, TRES calorique, ce qui provoque un fou rire général sur le plateau.