By embodying Zorro in the series of the same name, Jean Dujardin made a dream come true. It was also thanks to his brother, producer Marc Dujardin, that he was able to make it. During a press conference, the actress confided that playing Zorro East “an actor's dream which became an adult's nightmare, because after 20 years of career, I saw that it still wasn't coming, at 40 it still wasn't coming… I told myself that we were going to put out the fire, that it was no use. And then one day, Marc Dujardin came up with this project with Benjamin Charbit and that obviously precipitated everything.”
Zorro Did he break up a couple?
Unfortunately, this role got the better of his relationship with Nathalie Péchalat. A close friend of the former couple spoke to Here and revealed: “She criticizes him for not having supported her during the Olympic Games while she was president of Club France, then for having done two shoots abroad in quick succession. (the Zorro series in Spain, then The Shrinking Man in Belgium), leaving her very alone.”
This same source then clarified: “Their relationship had been struggling for some time. In recent weeks, they had decided to live on two different floors in their house in Montretout in order to give themselves some time and space to think.”
Jean Dujardin reveals that his age has an impact on his work
As part of the promotion of the series ZorroJean Dujardin visited the premises of Europe 1 on Julia Vignali's show, The Essentials of Europe 1. The 52-year-old actor then spoke about his physical preparation to play the masked hero, the filming of which lasted five months. “We shit a little more”he declared at first.
“I thought it was going to be more complicated. I'm not saying that it wasn't trying because the series is a real rhythm, but on the action scenes, I thought I would hurt myself a little more. I am 52 years old. We're not grandpa, but we have to sleep well, drink water, do stretches. You have to pay attention to everything, be careful and you have to hold on.” he later clarified.
Jean Dujardin talks about the filming of Zorro
During his visit to the Europe 1 studios, Jean Dujardin, who also spoke about his job, said a little more about the filming of the series Zorro. Things were well planned, since it was out of the question for him to party and not rest.
“When you know you have scenes with text, horse sequences and sword choreography, it's prepared. That means we don't go to bed too late, we eat little, we pay attention to everything , and it is in this constraint that we find our pleasure”he declared. Moreover, Mélanie Laurent, who worked with him in the past, was impressed by his pace of work during filming.
