2024-03-28 21:46:02
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN)– BEgyptian artist Bayoumi Fouad cried when a picture of his fellow artist, Mohamed Salam, was shown in front of him, during his media appearance on the “Incredible Ink” program, Thursday, which mainly dealt with his crisis with Salam following the repercussions of the latter’s withdrawal from the play “Artificial Marriage” in the Riyadh season last year.
Bayoumi Fouad refused to apologize for the famous video in which he addressed the Saudi audience following the play was shown, and in which he implicitly criticized Muhammad Salam, who withdrew from the play in solidarity with the civilian victims in Gaza, which caused a wave of sharp criticism of Bayoumi on social media platforms in Egypt, which included calls to boycott him.
Explaining his refusal to apologise, Bayoumi said: “I appreciate what I said, because I am a man who spoke, and I apologize only for saying that I am not coming to laugh, because we really go to laugh. Laughter is a beautiful thing, and comedy is a difficult thing that no one can offer.”
He added: “I said that we do not have money, and I apologize for this because we really do not have money.. I work and take money.”
He also apologized to “all the heroes of the play” who were standing behind him on stage when he addressed the Saudi audience at that time, because they were subjected to “insults” because of him, according to him.
He stressed that none of them knew that he would speak, nor was there any pressure from the Saudi side for him to speak regarding the issue, as some thought. Rather, “they asked me not to speak,” as he put it.
Bayoumi Fouad extended an apology to all his fans who were angry with him following the “Mohamed Salam crisis video,” and he addressed them by saying: “Tomorrow you will know the truth.”
Bayoumi Fouad touched on what he described as the “fierce campaign” once morest his colleague Mohamed Anwar because he was the “alternative,” saying: “Anwar was crying, and the phrase (Life is lived once, live it in peace, live it Anwar) hurt us greatly.”
He added: “After the attack on us in Saudi Arabia, Muhammad Anwar feared for himself and his children by returning to Egypt.”
Bayoumi responded to what was said by the Egyptian director Kamla Abu Zekry, who supported Mohamed Salam during that crisis, saying: “We did rehearsals for the play for more than a month, and the script was written in more than 3 months… We will not go to the other country to do things in 3 days, as she said.” “.
He addressed her by saying: “We are ambassadors for our country, and they in Saudi Arabia love us and respect us. If this is your plot and anger, what will we do? Their love for us is real.”
Bayoumi revealed that he contacted Mohamed Salam before announcing his apology for the play, and asked him to nominate a replacement for him. He replied, “Anyone from the Egyptian Theater.”
When Salam apologized in a video he posted on his accounts on social media platforms, Bayoumi said that he called him and asked him to delete the video, and he replied: “For the first time in my life, your fields are no.. I told him, ‘Relax, my son,’ and I left and we have not spoken since then.”
Regarding the repercussions of his crisis with Salam behind the scenes of the series “The Big One 8,” Bayoumi explained that he asked the makers of the series not to bring them together in any of the scenes of the work, otherwise he would apologize and return the wages he received, so they responded to his request and rewrote the episodes once more.
He added, “Ahmed Makki tried to reconcile with us, but I refused… because it will not end like this. It will end with God.”
When Asma Ibrahim, the presenter of the “Ink Secret” program, showed a picture of Mohamed La Salam in front of Bayoumi Fouad, and asked him to send him a message or a question, Bayoumi cried, then gathered himself and addressed him: “How can you not defend Mohamed Anwar when he is your candidate? You have nothing to lose.” If I defended him as I defended Amir Karara following that…this is what I was waiting for you to do.”
He added: “There is one age, and God is one for all those who insulted me, and all those who misunderstood me… I am wrong, but a man… and I am with you until the end.”
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