• The new James Bond "Die can wait" is released this Wednesday at the cinema in France with the last appearance of Daniel Craig in the role of the English spy.

  • The 53-year-old actor meets Dali Benssalah, a 29-year-old French actor revealed in a video clip of the duo The Blaze.

  • Born in Rennes where he grew up in the popular districts, this former Thai boxing champion has found a place in the cinema.

When he was a kid, the old Macintosh in the apartment in the Bréquigny district where he grew up opened with this message: “My name is Bond, James Bond”. The teenager he was then never imagined that one day he would be starring in one of the biggest film productions in the world. At 29 years old, the actor Dali Benssalah will have the honor of sharing the poster with Daniel Craig, Rami Malek or even Léa Seydoux on the occasion of the release of the latest James Bond

Dying can wait

this Wednesday. Known for his character in the series

Les Sauvages 

broadcast on Canal +, Dali Benssalah has changed into the role of Primo, a henchman of the mysterious organization Specter, in charge of facing 007.

French champion of Thai boxing, the one who was born and raised in Rennes had the honor of filming alongside Daniel Craig.

But also to fight it.

“It's a huge experience!

The means are oversized.

Daniel Craig is a very warm, very humble and caring person.

But when it turns and he becomes James Bond, he gives himself 10,000%.

He's a beautiful baby so when he loads, you have to be careful, ”slips the young actor.

Before recognizing that "each scene is a dose of adrenaline".

Still little known on the international scene, the Franco-Algerian actor was able to count on a little help from fate.

"The director Cary Joji Fukunaga had seen the clip

Territory

of The Blaze that I shot in Algiers in 2016 ”. Released in 2017, the video of the French electro duo has been viewed nearly 70 million times. “He instructed his assistant to contact me for a meeting. I first had an interview with casting director Debbie McWilliams (who has worked on 13 James Bond films anyway…). It opened the doors to casting in London for me. First, the fight, the stunt. How to take punches or gunshots, be believable on screen. Then a meeting with the director ”. That day, the French comedian convinced everyone and was offered a role in the last James Bond played by Daniel Craig. He will spend seven and a half months on this film. “Five months in London, two weeks in Italy and one week in Jamaica”.

The young actor remembers perfectly the day he left for England for the filming of James Bond.

He had just finished the series

Les Sauvages

 filmed in Saint-Etienne, when he jumped on a train.

“I couldn't even make the evening at the end of the shoot!

I ran into my wife at the train station in Paris.

She gave me another suitcase with clean clothes.

I didn't have time to think, didn't have time to dream.

"

Scheduled for April 8, 2020, at the heart of the first epidemic wave, the film's release has finally been postponed for eighteen months.

"It allowed me to take a step back from what I was going through."

At the time of the release of the last opus of 007, Dali Benssalah has just returned from a shoot with Romain Gavras and Ladj Ly for the film

War

, which will be released on Netflix.

And will soon be returning to Algeria for a Franco-Algerian film.

A first internship at Cours Florent as a teenager

The life led by this kid from the working-class neighborhoods in the south of Rennes was not, however, intended to lead him on such a path. Born in the Breton capital in 1992, the boy was initially passionate about karate. He will eventually take up Thai boxing after being disqualified from a competition for having put too much pressure. "I had barely touched". At 19, he became champion of France in the discipline before injuring himself and missing a trip to Thailand. Dali Benssalah will take advantage of the moment to go to Paris to follow the courses Florent and to rub shoulders for the second time in the world of comedy. “The first time was when I was a teenager. My mother was passionate about cinema. One summer when we had not gone to Algeria, she had enrolled us in the course Florent my brother and me ”.A click ? “I didn't have the ambition to have a career at all. But it stayed in the back of my mind ”. After having transplanted his university year in Eco Sciences in Rennes, he will return to Paris to continue theater lessons during the day. “At night, I worked as an interim in handling or events to pay my rent and fill my fridge”.

Since then, everything has accelerated and the actor has seen the proposals for theater and cinema arrive.

Until this first consecration of seeing his name appear in the credits of the 25th film of the most famous secret agent in the world.

An opus released last week in the United Kingdom and which received a very good reception from the critics and propelled the English in the cinemas which they had somewhat deserted.

A real boost in the career of the Bréquigny kid.

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