The beginning of the 2000s marks the advent of the series
One Guy, One Girl on France 2. A comic spot, before the 8 p.m. news, revealing the daily life of a fictional couple. Not so fictional, in the end, Jean and Alex, on screen, being Jean Dujardin et Alexandra
Lamy to the city. Two performers who have been propelled to the rank of TV star. And who became a real couple alongside the success of the series. A romance that will last a decade.
Jean Dujardin meets Alexandra Lamy
One Guy, One Girlbroadcast between 1999 and 2003, experienced a phenomenal success on the small French screen.
It is also and above all the meeting between Jean Dujardin and Alexandra Lamy. Either Links et
Petthe two lovers of the France 2 comedy series. This allows the respective careers of the two performers to take off. Before going into orbit.
In the shortcom, the two play Jean and Alex. A couple well into their sneakers whose first names have been kept to provide more realism. One Guy, One Girl
reveals the daily life of two lovers, one funny macho, one endearing. The public identifies with their sentimental (mis)adventures. And asks for more…
The two performers become a star couple
It’s done because Jean Dujardin and Alexandra Lamy really become Loulou and Chouchou.
The two begin a romance, extra-marital, because they are both a couple, which will transcend fiction. The star couple rides on the success of the series, the series feeds on the couple's notoriety. There Loulou and Chouchou-mania
surges like a tsunami.
Thus, Jean Dujardin and Alexandra Lamy become the
power couple of the small screen. But the actor very quickly became interested in cinema. It feels a little too cramped in the CRT. He works in comedies, first, where he brings back his partner like Brice de Nice Then Lucky Luke. However, the couple cannot resist Dujardin's rise.
The very intimate filming ofOne Guy, One Girl
In fact, in 2012, Jean Dujardin was crownedAcademy Award for Best Actor pour The Artist ! Two years later, the star couple divorced, leaving Lamy in the lurch while Dujardin found a new partner. It's the end of an era that leaves fansOne Guy, One Girlstill today, inconsolable.
Flashback: we are on the set ofOne Guy, One Girl. Guy Lepage, producer, suggests a particular stratagem to consolidate the links between the two.
The other producer, Isabelle Camusrecounts in
Gala : “He whispered to me: 'Put them in an uncomfortable situation and use the excuse of a technical glitch to leave them like that for around twenty minutes.’” Jean Dujardin and Alexandra Lamy then find themselves in a very intimate moment. Isabelle Camus adds, paraphrasing Lepage: “'It will strengthen their bond. They were spinning in bed, one on top of the other, and indeed, after a moment, faced with the embarrassing side of the situation, they burst out laughing!'” The beginning of their romance which will last ten years!
