INTERVIEW
What does a career hold? For Melha Bedia, it's a story of… merguez and couscous! The comedian and actress recounted her incredible debut, launched by rapper Diam's, on Tuesday morning in the program "Culture media" on Europe 1. For her, it all started on a Sunday, at her grandmother's. "I met Mélanie (Diam's first name, editor's note) because on Sundays she often came to eat couscous at my grandmother's in Gennevilliers. She adored my grandmother. In fact there was a lack of merguez, and she m 'said to come and buy some with her,' begins Ramzy's sister (from the duo Eric and Ramzy).
Diam's offers to follow her on her tour to take care of the styling ...
"We walked together for 5 minutes, and there she asks me: 'you graduated with honors at 16, what are you going to do with your life?' I told her I had no idea, that I had enrolled in college. She said, 'Take a year off and come with me on the tour. You will take care of the styling and the dressing. how you like it '. She offers me all this in five minutes, for me it was great! "
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… And to do its first part!
The adventure with Diam's, which was supposed to last a year, ended up stretching over two and a half years. But Melha Bedia didn't just do styling during the tour, far from it. "I was supposed to iron the singers' t-shirts and give Diam's water. But on the first date, she told me to go do the first part!", Says the actress, seen recently in the films Forte (on Amazon prime with Valérie Lemercier) and Simply black.
"She had an idea in her head, she knew. I hadn't written anything at all, I went there totally improvising for two months. I explained that I was the stylist of Diam's, that I was not well paid, that kind of thing. It was right at the time of the controversy of the veil, so I made valves on it. It worked, so it gave me confidence ", recalls the humorist. "This is all a chipolata story!"
Melha Bedia took the opportunity to give news of Diam's, who ended her career as a rapper after her conversion to Islam. "She's doing very well, she's on social media. She continues to write and has written two books which are great, she does a lot of things. She's a happy mother, she's doing very, well."