00:00 Face inescapable of French cinema, the actor Laurent Laffitte remains very discreet
00:13 in what concerns his private life.
00:15 During an interview granted for release in 2012, he explained why he never talked
00:23 about him in the media.
00:24 Born in French in the Val-de-Marne department on August 22, 1973, Laurent Laffitte graduated
00:34 from the profession of comedian within the Conservatoire de Paris, three years for which
00:39 he did not pay a cent, but also at the Ford School of Acting in England.
00:44 Remaining on the big screen for a few years, the actor has also been a senior member of
00:51 French comedy since 2012.
00:55 "It's not a trophy on the chimney, if it's a commitment.
01:00 Not only French comedy becomes my main employer but I join a troop, and I have to
01:09 make my place.
01:10 I'm going back to zero," he said in an interview granted for release in 2012.
01:17 While Laurent Laffitte celebrates his 50th anniversary on Tuesday, August 22, the actor
01:25 still remains extremely discreet in what concerns his private life.
01:29 However, some rumors claiming that he was homosexual have come to light because of
01:36 the character of Claude Le Fistfucker, who he played in his Manu show at the theater.
01:44 Liberation had also interviewed Laurent Laffitte on the subject.
01:48 "Ah, that's where you wanted to come in.
01:53 A journalist recently asked me the same question, he looked uncomfortable, you don't like me.
02:00 But we don't care, no, to know if I'm gay or not, if I have children, all that.
02:07 My conviction, so steep that actors should not talk about it, it atrophies people's
02:12 confidence, while our efficiency as an actor is the opposite of what we will succeed in
02:17 to stir in the spectator's imagination," the comedian had replied.
02:21 During this same interview, Laurent Laffitte had also claimed his love for France.
02:31 "First of all, I would like to say that I love France, this country that we have so much
02:37 right to criticize.
02:38 I don't know if we're lucky, Paul Conard.
02:45 So if Steve Vray, the work is very taxed, and even more so, but when I'm told why,
02:53 I understand and it goes.
02:54 That said, is it the work that should be the most taxed?
03:01 Why not the most valued?
03:02 Or a TV proportional to income?
03:05 Same with social security, why not imagine a proportional refund to income?
03:11 In any case, which is so sure, so steep that even if I made as much money as Depardieu,
03:17 I would not leave.
03:18 I owe everything to France, "I had indicated the actor.
03:24 "I'm not going to leave.
03:39 I'm not going to leave.
04:01 I'm not going to leave.
