Dive into the 1820s this evening on France 2! While Don Diego de la Vega has not donned the costume of Zorro for twenty years and the populations of California suffer from the Spanish power in place, the memory of the hero seems to have disappeared. When his father Don Alejendro died, Diego succeeded him as mayor of Los Angeles. He quickly realizes that the municipality is facing major financial problems due to the greed of a local businessman, Don Emmanuel. His powers as mayor proving insufficient to fight injustice, Diego makes the famous Zorro reappear. And this new Zorro is none other than Jean Dujardin!
Happy to be able to play this superhero, the French actor will undoubtedly delight older children but also younger people as Zorro is a timeless character. Father of two little girls, Jeanne and Alice, whom he had with the former figure skater Nathalie Péchalat, Jean Dujardin surely delighted them with this role which is much talked about and for which he ensured wide promotion.
Shortly after the arrival of Jeanne, who showed up on December 5, 2015, the Oscar-winning actor in February 2012 for The Artist decided to give up a bad habit: cigarettes. Alexandra Lamy's ex spoke on the subject in 2019 to Liberation. “We feel like we're going to be naked without this thing“, he first declared, adding: “The cigarette made me completely paranoid, more nervous and more anxious. I didn't want my daughter to tell me I stank. A doctor's little phrase, 'bad news comes at 50', also did its job well.“Jean Dujardin, who is now 52, did not wait until he was 50 to stop smoking.
Why is the first daughter of Jean Dujardin and Nathalie Péchalat called Jeanne?
You will have easily noticed that the first names of Jean and Jeanne are extremely close, but why this choice? Because it was close to Nathalie Péchalat’s heart, for a very specific reason as she herself explained: “It came pretty quickly. I lived in Russia for 3 years and there, the tradition is to give the father's first name to the first child. It is said that when a mother is very in love with her husband, she gives her first child the same first name.“, had entrusted the star of figure skating to Magic Maman. “This is why there are many Alexanders and Sergei in Russian and Slavic countries. There was this idea on my side, and then the first name Jeanne is present in our respective families, with Jean“, she added, concluding that “it was therefore the idea of filiation which took precedence. It was obvious, there were no discussions or expectations. It was decided very quickly.”
In addition to Jeanne and Alice, Jean Dujardin is also the father of two boys, Simon (born in 2000) and Jules (born in 2001), whom he had with his ex-wife Gaëlle. A lovely blended family!
