The actor and director Nicolas Bedos was the guest of Quotidien, Monday evening, a month after the controversial publication of a message hostile to the measures taken against the Covid-19.

Without denying the substance of the message, he said "understand the controversy" caused by this "somewhat irresponsible text" in the middle of the second wave.

Some regrets, but not more.

Guest of

Quotidien

, Monday evening, Nicolas Bedos explained on his anti-mask platform in September.

A month ago, the actor and director was shocked by posting a long text on his Instagram account.

"Let's be frank: Stop everything. EVERYTHING. The masks. The confinements. Except in front of your very fragile parents. Live thoroughly, get sick, go to restaurants (...) We must now live, even if it means dying" from the coronavirus.

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Bedos evokes "an excessive text"

After this forum, Nicolas Bedos had been strongly criticized by other personalities from the entertainment world but also and especially by many politicians, starting with the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran.

In

Quotidien

, the actor was questioned about this very controversial position and made a sort of

mea culpa

: "I understand the controversy, it is an excessive text, written in anger the day after the mass organized for my godfather, Jean-Loup Dabadie. "

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"It's a bit irresponsible text, but it raises the question of the responsibility of an artist," said the actor and director.

"Does an artist have a vocation to speak responsibly? I don't think so. When I buy a novel by Michel Houellebecq, Henry Miller or Virginie Despentes, I don't buy a conduct guide, otherwise I 'buy a book by Marc Lévy. "

"Remarks taken out of context"

To justify his position, Nicolas Bedos therefore advances the function of the artist, who is not required to make responsible statements in society.

He also denounced "words taken out of context".

Faced with Yann Barthès, Nicolas Bedos assured that in the street, he met people who had "understood because they follow (his) Instagram account".

"They know what period of my life I find myself in, they know that I was not able to accompany my relatives, that my father left, in part, because of the confinement and his imposed loneliness. They know that it is. is a cry from the heart. "

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A week ago, in a column published on

Le Point

, Nicolas Bedos had already confessed that he had "not taken the measure of the insult that (his) litany seemed to spill over the masks of caregivers who are fighting for our mouths, to the cops who wear themselves out protecting us from our emotional intoxication. "