Steven Bellery has interviewed Brahim Zaibat for French radio station RTL backstage at the Palais des Congrès in Paris, where the Robin Hood musical will premiere on September 26th.
On Madonna:
She’s not a monster. She has two eyes, not seven. She’s got two arms, two legs just like everybody else. She’s a normal woman like anybody else.
She’s an artist, just like any other, but I respect her a lot more as she gives a lot more to the public than most. So if we’re talking about the myth/legend, there is no myth/legend. As far as I’m concerned, Michael Jackson is the only myth/legend.
On working together:
I sometimes train with her because she has a really physical workout. I don’t think that many people can keep up with her. She’s a machine. That says it all. Hard work pays off. You can become a machine, whatever your age, size, weight. She works out every day and since I’ve met her, I do the same. I have a lot of respect for her.
On meeting Madonna as a life-changing experience:
My life hasn’t changed. Everything is good. I just got older. I’m still here, grounded. I see my family, I go back to Lyon and Paris. I’m still the same person.
It sounds like Madonna has been spilling some tea.
I think he's saying that she is not MIchael in the sense that he hid from everyone and stuff, that she doesn't have a 'diva' life but she is just a regular woman on her day-to-day.
