If Alain Chabat is today a flagship figure of TV and cinema, he had to embark on some unexpected activities before getting there. The 66 -year -old actor revealed the profession he had exercised before becoming famous …
Before becoming an actor, director, producer and host, Alain Chabat wanted to become a rock singer or comic book designer. If he ultimately did not continue in these paths professionally, he still tried another experience to make money, in his youth …
Alain Chabat: this unusual activity in which he started
It was in the 80s, when he was at the start of his twenty, that Alain Chabat started in the radio, first on France Inter then RMC. He then met Pierre Lescure who offered to host shows on Canal + and ended up creating the legendary group of comedians, Dummies, with Chantal Lauby, Dominique Farrugia and Bruno Carette. But before becoming a flagship figure of French humor and cinema, this native of Oran in Algeria had exercised an unexpected profession to make money.
Alain Chabat revealed, on the set of the show Hot ones Presented by Kyan Khojandi, whom he had had “bad idea“To sell jewelry at Trocadéro, near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, when he was about 17 years old.”People do not know (…) We sold phosphorescent necklaces … We had bought transparent pipe rolls with small tips, we cut, and we sold at Trocadéro“He said
“”It was very intelligent because we did that in your mouth, we had to swallow a bunch of filth“, He then quipped by mimicking the gesture he made with his mouth to make these famous necklaces. And to specify:”But we made money like that“.
Alain Chabat, his difficult career at school: he “redoubled each class”
If he has never been short of ideas and he has a prolific career today, the actor has not had a brilliant schooling, far from it. He attended no less than twelve schools between the 6th and the final year.
“”Just redouble each class and get fired during the year. Once, it was because of a move. For the others, I have no excuse. I was unhappy at school“He had told the Figaro Before adding: “”I passed my tank twice and I missed it twice“. Far from the classrooms, it was ultimately on the shooting and television sets that Alain Chabat found her way … and marked the spirits.
