While losing his hair at 25, Pascal Obispo tells the microphone of Europe 1 how he had a revelation watching Marlon Brando camp Colonel Kurtz in "Apocalypse Now", the film by Francis Ford Coppola.

Click which allowed the singer since to assume his baldness "and to scratch his skull". 

INTERVIEW

Take responsibility for your hair loss thanks to a legendary film and a cult actor.

If many men use (and sometimes abuse) various and varied strategies to try to hide a badly experienced baldness, the singer Pascal Obispo has chosen to assume it fully.

But as he tells at the microphone of Michel Denisot on Europe 1, admitting his defeat in the face of a growing lack of hair was not easy.

"It's very difficult to lose your hair when you're 25, you have to live it to find out."

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Colonel Kurtz's smooth skull

However, one film, and the performance of one actor in particular, will decide the singer to let go: Marlon Brando in 

Apocalypse Now.

"It allowed me to scratch my head and assume", confirms the interpreter.

In this award-winning feature film by Francis Ford Coppola, Marlon Brando plays Colonel Kurtz, one of the key characters in the plot who only appears for ten minutes on the screen, but who has the particularity of playing. 'be totally bald. 

The detail may seem trivial.

It is not for a young adult who must assume incipient baldness when he is known.

And if Pascal Obispo admits that it "may seem stupid", he assures that Colonel Kurtz "helped" to achieve it. 

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A very strong tribute

Moreover, as if to prove to himself that he now fully assumes his hair loss, the singer pays tribute to Marlon Brando on the cover of his album

Soledad

, released in 1999. A photo on which he "gets his hands on the skull, much like Marlon Brando, in

Apocalypse Now

".

On the left, a capture of the scene from

Apocalypse Now

 that Pascal Obispo wanted to reproduce.

On the right, the cover photo of the

 singer's

Soledad

album

. 

And just put the album cover next to a photo of the scene in question to realize that obviously, the wink is more than supported.