When Julia Roberts Cesar attended in March, Jean Pascal Zadi was given the task of presenting Irene Brocovich Oscar -winning actress.
The actor and comic director Roberts had his tips, as he made comparisons between their great smiles and explained that she could apply for political asylum if she feels heat at home, indicating that she could get advice from actor Abu Sanjari, who was sitting a few seats away.
Sangaré, born in Guinea, who won the Burns Festival Festival Award for Best Actor Award in 2024 for his performance as an immigrant not documented in Sweiman's story It will be He was recruited with the best revelation for males in that evening, and they have just survived deportation from France after securing a work permit in January.
The tone of the humor was a typical of Zadi, which had previously won four years as well Simply blackRiot comed, correct non -national that address black experiences in France.
Jean Pascal Zadi in “represents”
Zadi's spot in César Awards, in addition to its role in a championship in a trailer that relies on the aerial play that promotes the fiftieth edition, indicates that it is now part of the main French culture.
“I love the fact that you say that because I still feel a little on the margins,” Zadi says.
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This comes as a surprise, given its recent achievements, which includes the Netflix series RepresentationThat he created with Lupine Writer Francois Ozan, and stars in as a young leader running to become the first black president in France, as well as roles in films such as Final partsand Smoking causes coughingand Heartburnand Trial And recently Flourish.
One of 10 brothers, Zadi was born in the Bondi suburb in Paris in 1980 for parents from Ivory Coast. He grew up in the city of Normandy Port Cayne.
“We were the only black family. There was no separation, but we lived some difficult things.” “My mother was based on us very early on the fact that we were black and that this would turn our destinies upside down.”
“It would have made us watch films like Freedom of crying and Dry white season. Black culture and the fact that we will have to fight in life. When I was young, with my brothers, we found it a bit crazy. ”
As a student, Zadi came to realize that his mother had prepared him well, after one of the store owner denied vacant the window that was qualified for her, they denied that she was looking for someone when he was walking on the street to inquire.
“On that day, a penny decreased,” Zadi remembers. “I understood that instead of asking for things, I had to act.”
He bought a credit camera and made his first documentary movie Des halls aux bacsAbout the French rap scene.
Zadi in “Le Grand Deblm”
“I went out on DVD in 2005, and I have not stopped since then,” he says. “I understood what I was able to.”
Follow the documentary with very low budget features Dignityand African gangs and Sans Pudeur Ni Moral Spirit, At the same time that I stormed it on TV as a contributor to the channel+ If he accepted Du Grand Journal.
Zadi reveals that he reduced his way on the field Simply blackThis indicates that he obtained the participation of stars such as Omar C, Eric Judor and Fabrice Iboy when he did not approach them at that stage.
“I fell on the contract, and I was in a state of panic … I didn't even wrote a scene of Omar C.
Zadi suggests that the project hit a tendon with the list of French black actors who participated in the movie.
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“The black French identity has not been treated much. We talk a lot about the black American identity, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, the chapter, while the French black identity is linked to colonialism, which brings us together, but it also separates us at the same time.”
Zadi is now preparing for the June version of the Abidjan-Shot feature Le Grand Deliple, About a space mission with an African crew, and the development of adaptation to Boris Vianian's novel Spit on your grains, About a black man in the United States, which allows white skin to cross ethnic barriers, to be placed in French nerve islands.
Zadi says questions about French black identity are likely to remain in the heart of his work.
He says: “Unfortunately, or fortunately, the fact that it is black and live in France has been deeply distinguished and at the present time, this is the easiest for me to re -inform him, these visceral things that I lived in.”
