Saïd Taghmaoui, from La Haine to the will

Audio 48:30

The actor Saïd Taghmaoui © Philippe Doignon

By: Yasmine Chouaki

50 mins

It is a stroke of fate, a stroke of Mektoub, a fairy tale full of roses and full of thorns.

Here is a little strike from Aulnay-sous-Bois, who has become an international actor and now lives in Los Angeles ...

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Here's a little guy from the suburbs revealed 25 years ago in

Hate

(cult movie), who stars alongside Kate Winslet, Marc Wahlberg and George Clooney, who can play an (Arab) savior of humanity in an American Blockbuster and which still has no place at the banquet of French cinema. By reading his beautiful autobiography

De La haine à Hollywood

(Recherche Midi), we understand that in the life of our guest - in the freight elevator department - there is only an emotional lift, for the rest and especially for success , he always took the stairs. So here is

Saïd Taghmaoui

still geographically to the west (between Morocco, France and the US) who says it

If I was born in France, my blood has the color and the scent of the Moroccan mountains.

And if the dunes of Africa haunt my imagination, it is to better remember that I grew up in the homeland of human rights.

Saïd Taghmaoui's musical choices

Notorious BIG

Warning

Babylon

Zina

Elijah Black 

Hanging tree

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