"I was shot": the day Dany Boon was violently attacked by his neighbor

Solène Delinger 11:48 am, April 18, 2023

Dany Boon is about to make his comeback in the cinema Wednesday, April 19, 2023 with his new comedy La vie pour de vrai, in which he gives the answer to his accomplice of always, Kad Merad. It is on this occasion that the Northerner confided in our colleagues of the Parisian in an exclusive interview published Tuesday, April 18, 2023. The actor, whose success exploded with Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis, made surprising revelations about his childhood and one event in particular...

"I still have the scar in my thigh"

"I was shot by a neighbor, with a pellet gun," he revealed. "I still have the scar in my thigh. We had coron houses. A veteran of the Algerian war also shot us because we listened to music that was too loud," he said.

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"My father was very funny"

In the same interview, Dany Boon also confided in his father, who undoubtedly passed on his sense of humor: "My father was funny. Very hard in his education, but generous, turned towards others [...] I never saw my father box, it was when he lived in Algeria. He got me late and he became a truck driver." Then, the star explained that his desire to make humor and cinema certainly came from his childhood, and a "flaw".

Dany Boon experienced the "rejection of his maternal family"

"Artistic careers always start from a flaw. Me, my flaw was the rejection of my maternal family vis-à-vis my mother who had married a Kabyle, "recalled the actor in Le Parisien. "My father never spoke ill of my grandparents, which I found very classy. They were racist. I tried to understand why they did not want to see me, while my great-grandfather, who had experienced the war of 14, and who was my idol, and his wife, were so open, "then detailed Dany Boon, visibly still marked by this heartbreaking family story.