Olympic boxing champion in 2000, Brahim Asloum also made a stop in the cinema in 2013, with "Victor 'Young' Perez".
An experience that has remained unique until then, but that the consultant of France Televisions for the Tokyo Olympics hopes to repeat in the future, as he said Thursday on Europe 1.
Former boxer and boxing club boss, columnist, consultant, Brahim Asloum is a jack-of-all-trades, who has also tasted cinema. The Olympic champion (in Sydney, in 2000), in fact starred in
Victor "Young" Perez
, released in November 2013. If the film met with modest success, Brahim Asloum's performance was on the whole critically acclaimed. Above all, he gave the former champion a taste for the seventh art. And if Brahim Asloum has not remade the actor since, the envy, it, is always there. "I even dreamed of it, to be honest," confirmed Brahim Asloum, guest Thursday of the Summer Club on Europe 1.
"There is nothing that gave me as much emotion as boxing and so much pleasure. And it is true that the second thing which approached these feelings, it was the cinema", a assured the one who will be France Televisions consultant for the boxing event on France Televisions during the Tokyo Olympics. "I felt like I was preparing myself like I'm preparing for a boxing match. There are three or four months of preparation, you have to learn your text, have it in your mouth. So, I tried to learn everything. by heart, because I was not an actor and I had the leading role. So I put the pressure on myself by saying to myself 'you have no right to be wrong'. So, I took that as if that was my physical condition in preparation for a fight. "
"You have to improvise like you do in the ring"
Brahim Asloum continued the boxing analogy.
"You have to improvise as you do in the ring. Me, I assume that when you enter the ring, there are two strong moments, it is to take care of your entry and exit. And in the middle, you do your best. ", smiled the ex-champion.
“In the middle, it can be complicated, but that's where you have to train, you have to work so as not to suffer. What I liked about this cinema was to put myself on stage. from the moment I heard action, there you have it, you had to be there. "
Brahim Asloum also paid tribute to those who, like him, came from the world of sport to go to the cinema, to the point of becoming, for some of them, full-fledged actors. This is the case of Lino Ventura, former wrestler or even ex-footballer Eric Cantona. "When you have iconic characters, sports legends, to be as good in another field ... I have enormous respect. For me, they are cracks," he said. "To leave a field where we are performing, to go to another universe which is not ours and to perform, hats off!"