The rising French actor knows what it is to grow up fast, having been a professional stand-up comedian from the age of thirteen. The year-old actor is in his apartment and drinking grenadine with lemonade from a short rocks glass, which I mistake for a Negroni. He cackles. As it turns out, sirop is basically the French version of Ribena.
What Bak is doing is trying to catch his breath after a whirlwind year. Jean quickly becomes the man of the house, filling in for his increasingly absent mother Rose Annabelle Lengronne , who in turn is juggling night shifts as a hotel maid alongside a new relationship.
Bak is referring to his former life as a professional stand-up comedian, a career he embarked on at the age of The story goes something like this: Bak had heard that two of his favourite comedians, Jamel Debbouze and Gad Elmaleh, were doing a free show in Paris. They were third in line, and waited for four hours.
Bak drifted across the street to the venue opposite, Le Pranzo. Its then-owner, Emmanuel Smadja, wanted to know what a year-old was doing hanging around outside a comedy club at Bak said he was waiting for his train, and told Smadja about his dream of performing on stage.
Two weeks later, he did his first set. I jumped up on stage and the performance was too heavenly! I was like, you can make grown-ups laugh and get a little bit of money for it?!
