Comedian Gad Elmaleh Meets Pope Francis, Discusses Interfaith Film at Vatican

"Today, December 23, 2022, I had the honor and immense joy of meeting Pope Francis at the Vatican," Gad Elmaleh announced on Facebook and Instagram, accompanying his post with a few photos of this audience that was not on the sovereign pontiff’s official agenda. On this occasion, he showed him some images of Stay a Little, his personal film released on November 16. "After showing him images of Stay a Little, we exchanged on fraternity between peoples and interreligious dialogue," the comedian recounted. "I was very touched by this great simple, humble and radiant man. A great inspiration regardless of our religion." For the ex of Charlotte Casiraghi, it was a moment of sharing, love and humor.

To read:

"It’s a lot of emotions. There is the spiritual figure, he represents the Church, but there is the man... We talked about deep subjects, we also laughed a lot. It was not an appointment but an encounter. [...] We started with a conversation about light, because I had explained in my letter that I was requesting this meeting in the double light of Hanukkah and Christmas," confides the one who was born into a Jewish family in Morocco and who even integrated the theology courses of the Collège des Bernardins in Paris, in an interview given to Le Figaro after the meeting.