Gilles Lellouche is inseparable from Jean Dujardin. The two look alike. Same physical
belmondiensame appetite for gritty comedy, same career trajectory, same private life overexposed in the media. No wonder the two toured together. In Little handkerchiefsFirst of all, The Infidelsthen, or La French.
Friends on screen, enemies too, sometimes, but what about in real life once the cameras are turned off?
The similar careers of Lellouche and Dujardin
Gilles Lellouche and Jean Dujardin are part of this generation of actors who broke through somewhat late in life.
Lellouche investigates the clips, Pascal
Obispo has NTMhiding in small roles. Dujardin, for his part, is revealed in Star Seeds then propelled by the success ofOne Guy, One Girl on television.
It was finally in their thirties that the two performers came into their own.
Gilles Lellouche becomes a leading actor before definitively transforming the essay behind the camera in 2018 with The Great Bath. Dujardin, for his part, has a string of successes in the cinema until winning a Oscar for Best Actor in 2012 for The Artist at just 40 years old!
The two actors have already filmed together
Both participate in choral comedy The Little Handkerchiefseven though they only have a short amount of time together on screen. Rebelote, two years later, in The Infidelssketch films about adultery, in which they star and co-direct a segment. Finally, in 2014, Gilles Lellouche and Jean Dujardin met again in La
French.
In this mafia thrillerdrawing its story from the famous French Connectionthe two performers face each other. Lellouche slips into the godfather's suits
Gaetan ZampaDujardin plays the opinionated judge
Pierre Michel. The film is worth the detour for them, the first breaking its image of big troublemakerthe second displaying one of its best roles at the cinema.
Gilles Lellouche balances cash on Jean Dujardin
In 2011, between The Little Handkerchiefs et The InfidelsGilles Lellouche heads in Hello Earthlings! presented by Thierry Ardisson. The actor speaks, inevitably, of the success of
Small handkerchiefs. And, obviously also, his friendships with the whole gang: Guillaume Canetdirector, but also Marion Cotillard and of course Jean Dujardin.
“We are very friends, yes.”, says Gilles Lellouche alongside Nicolas Bedos on the set of SLT!. “But we've all known each other for a long, long time. This is not an opportunistic or professional friendship at all. We're friends, really.”We are impatiently awaiting a new collaboration. And we say to ourselves that Lellouche would have made a great Bernardo in Zorro !
