“I was ashamed of being successful compared to my parents.” Zabu Breitman is confident about his status as a star child.

You could say that Zabu Breitman is the opposite nepo child , These sons and daughters of personalities who ride on their parents’ successes to establish their own. On the Sunday in the Country show, the 64-year-old actress spoke with Frederick Lopez about the obstacle that her parents’ success presented to her career, but especially to enjoying it. small and big victories. Until he forgot his father, with whom he wrote his first film, Remember the beautiful thingsIn his acceptance speech to the Caesars.

“I turned things around and I take responsibility for it”

On February 22, 2003, Zabu Breitman, dressed in a tailcoat and a white T-shirt, took to the Cesar stage to accept the award for first feature. It was released in theaters last year Remember the beautiful things, a film about memory loss that he wrote with his father, Jean-Claude Deret. A distributor predicted total failure for a film he described as “monstrous”. The complete opposite is happening. Proudly, the new director begins his acceptance speech, which he ends with “I hope I’m not forgetting anyone.” A botched operation because he forgets perhaps the most important person in the film: his father. After thinking for a long time why he actually suffers from it, Zabu Breitman today entrusts his analysis to Frederic López: “I turned the thing around and I accept it.” Encountering a father who keeps telling him “hey, that’s my girl”, a mother who repeats to him that he’s lucky, it’s an opportunity to unconsciously take advantage of his opportunity; “this, here, he is for me.”

“I never shared my success with them”

Born in Paris to an actress mother and screenwriter father, his father was so successful that “he didn’t go out without being attacked, it was crazy.” His mother is from an extremely poor family and his father is from a very bourgeois family. “My mother always told me that I was lucky, and it always made me nervous. I realized that what is happening to me is not my fault,” he says. One day his parents are no longer successful. When hers comes, she can’t help but be afraid of hurting her parents and can’t mention it. Her first magazine cover, a children’s title, made her uncomfortable. “Maybe because my mother saw it, it definitely made her sad,” he analyzes. “In fact, I was so embarrassed that I never shared my success with them. I know they were there for me, but deep down there was a sense of their failure that was still very strong.”