BONDY, France (AFP) – US film star Samuel L. Jackson met immature people in a poor Paris suburb Tuesday, spotlighting deprived districts which mainstream French cinema, similar to a politicians, is accused of neglecting.
Jackson pennyless off his holidays along with his wife Latanya Richardson to revisit Bondy, which was between most suburban districts or "banlieues" strike in 2005 by aroused protests sparked by tensions between military as well as youths.
Jackson, 61, a black actress who grew up in a southern state of Tennessee during a time of secular segregation, drew parallels with a tensions which vaporise today in France's deprived newcomer districts, crippled by unemployment.
"When I was a tiny child... I essentially believed I was a second-class citizen," he told a gathering in a eastern Paris suburb. "But my parents believed really strongly in me removing a great education."
He insisted which "of course" a single day France could, similar to a United States, have a black president.
"I never believed which in my lifetime there would be an African-American president," he said.
"That was done possible because immature people found out which their voice meant something," he added. "You have been a voting bloc. You have a energy, a power to shift a laws which need changing."
Jackson is well known as a black-suited, Bible-quoting LA hitman Jules Winnfield in Quentin Tarantino's cult 1994 movie "Pulp Fiction", as well as a pretension role of a patrolman "Shaft" in a 2000 reconstitute of a New York crime classic.
He pronounced his prime recent French movie was "A Prophet", a prison drama about a immature rapist from an newcomer background, which pennyless from a French movie industry's regular run of mid! dle-clas s comedies as well as silken action films.
"We pictured a nation where it's similar to those Luc Besson films where everybody's doing 'parkour' as well as they're using along a walls," Jackson joked, referring to an extreme stunt technique used in Besson's banlieue fantasy "District 13".
"We're just creation certain that's not really true," Jackson added.
His revisit was set up by a US ambassador to France, Charles Rivkin, a former party industry executive who has run various cultural projects to strech out to a banlieues given his appointment by Obama last year.
Tuesday's gathering was staged in offices used by a Bondy Blog, an online headlines source set up during a 2005 riots.
The blog came to be regarded as a useful source as reporters grappled with coverage of neighbourhoods which had perceived relatively little media attention.
"It's important for us to give a different image of a banlieue, because we have been rather stigmatised by a press due to a riots," pronounced Khir-Din Grid, a 23-year-old student as well as aspiring film-maker.
"I am really happy which Samuel L. Jackson comes, though what I'd similar to to see is those in power in France, as well as actors as well as film-makers... come here as well as talk to a immature people," he told AFP.
Nacim Ben Younes, a local 21-year-old student as well as aspiring actor, pronounced he was "inspired" by Jackson though complained which as usual journalists as well as officials hogged a microphone as well as few of a immature locals' voices were heard.
"He pronounced we have to be ready to seize opportunities, though will there always be opportunities which come? I'm afraid of never removing which opportunity," he told AFP.
"There have been only two or three film-makers in France who have b! een inte rested in a banlieue," he added, fixing between them Jacques Audiard, whose "A Prophet" was nominated for an Oscar this year as well as won several awards during France's equivalent, a Cesars.
"It's really difficult to turn an actress in France," Younes said. "Casting agents ask if you're from a banlieue as well as you're just not taken seriously."
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