When I'm sitting in the hotel sipping a coffee and about to bite into a yummy French cake, he almost takes my appetite away as he comes and sits opposite me, long before our interview is due to start. "Hello, Helen," he says very deliberately, clearly impressed with himself that, unlike most French people, he can pronounce the letter H. He likes to speak English.
In fact, he likes to talk. Where did he learn English? "In the school and with, err, girls.
That's the best way because when a girl yells at you and you go, 'What did you say?' you look up the dictionary and find 'asshole', ahh, OK. The 48-year-old comedian is said to be a hot commodity with the fairer sex, something he is naturally keen to confirm.
Fame of course is sexy and in France Chabat is a top celebrity. Today, looking trim and younger than his age, he tells me he has three children by three different women but has never married. It's therefore tempting to think that he is playing a version of himself in , the film we?
are here to discuss. After all, he came up with the story of a confirmed bachelor, who must marry to keep his bourgeois family happy. He ends up in an arrangement with a tough, coarse-talking woman (Charlotte Gainsbourg) of the kind he would never normally consider dating.
"I love being with one woman but for years I had a problem with marriage," Chabat says. "I thought it was like a piece of paper. The idea of marriage and ending up together is what society wants but in reality it doesn't happen much these days.
" Chabat concedes it is a convention of romantic comedies such as When I'm sitting in the hotel sipping a coffee and about to bite into a yummy French cake, he almost takes my appetite away as he comes and sits opposite me, long before our interview is due to start.
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