“You weren't born yet!”: Jacques Weber gently puts Léa Salamé back in her place, surprised by his remarks

Jacques Weber was Léa Salamé's guest on France Inter on January 20. And the actor made a sharp remark to the journalist.

© France Inter Jacques Weber was Léa Salamé's guest on France Inter on January 20. And the actor made a sharp remark to the journalist.

IN BRIEF

• On January 20, 2025, Léa Salam&eacute interviews Jacques Weber on France Inter to promote his play L’Injuste.
• Jacques Weber talks about his difficult childhood and his father's initial contempt for his theatrical career.
• The actor then dared to make a little remark to the journalist

This Monday, January 20, 2025, Léa Salam&eacute éwas in charge of the France Inter morning show.At his microphone, Jacques Weber, who came to promote the play L’Injuste in which he will play from January 23 at the Théâtre de la Renaissance.

And here is that the journalist from France Inter did not hesitate to return to the childhood of her guest: “The Jacques Weber theater, you said it, it was not written in your family heritage. Your father was a polytechnician, a great physicist, a chemist. In your family, there were lots of doctors. Your brother was a philosopher. And you say: “I was the black sheep, I was useless at school and what's more I was a showman”. Çit must not have been easy for your parents, you talk about your father's contemptuous silence at the beginning”. 

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Jacques Weber makes a scathing remark to Léa Salamé

Comments confirmed by the director: “Here we touch &agrave some rather… touching moments of my existence”, he begins by answering. “It's true that I believed, life passed over that, my successes repaired us. Because once I had success everything was abolished, finished. But it's true that at the beginning, I was considered, my father said, as an imbecile”.

Léa Salamé then retorts: “You were useless, you were firedé”. This &agrave to which Jacques Weber replies: “You know, you weren't born, it was a rigid, Catholic era, with frightening rules in fact. It was the blows of forks on the elbows, if one was at table”. 

The actor returns to the image his father had of his success

Confidentialities that leave the journalist speechless. “Later, he was proud of your father ?”, she asks him kindly. Indeed, Jacques Weber was able to see the pride of his father in his eyes: “Yes I think so”, he replies.

But the actor wants to add a little nuance: “But it's always the same: the pride in the success that one can have in this profession is always a little excessive, a little exaggerated”, he says. Confidences in all frankness for the one who will be back on stage in a few days. With his success, Jacques Weber was able to silence the bad criticism he received as a child. A great revenge on life.