In a recent interview with BrutGuillaume Canet looks back on his childhood in the same village as Jean Dujardin and shares his few memories with the man who was, at the time, not his friend.
Release day. At the start of the year, movie fans will not find Guillaume Canet in theaters but on Netflix. The actor is collaborating for the first time with the global streaming platform for which he directed To Lifea thriller to discover in its catalog from this Friday, January 10. On screen, he plays a former member of GIGN trying to save his wife, kidnapped by mysterious criminals. An action film far from those produced by this enthusiast in his early days…
Guillaume Canet talks about his rivalry with Jean Dujardin as a child
This week, Guillaume Canet had the opportunity to retrace at length the path he has traveled during an interview given to Brut. Marion Cotillard’s companion explains that he began to take an interest in cinema by creating small amateur projects with “village friends” where he grew up in Yvelines, in Gambais, then in Plaisir. In the latter, he meets a certain Jean Dujardin. But no feature film from this period where we see them as teenagers exists! The reason? “Because when I left Plaisir I was 10-11 years old, Jean was in an opposing gang. He was with Alexandre Marie, who will recognize himself because he broke my collarbone”admits the fifty-year-old, laughing.
Guillaume Canet talks about his few childhood memories with Jean Dujardin
Guillaume Canet and Jean Dujardin therefore did not really have the opportunity to discuss their common passion. “We weren’t great friends, we became friends with Jean much later. We fought a bit, not with Jean but with Alexandre Marie. He became the godfather of his sonthey are very, very friends”successively indicates the man being himself the father of two children. As for the few times they were able to laugh together, the hero of Flood remembers that his discussions with the star of The Artist were very far from their shared center of interests. “We didn’t talk about that at all. He was one of the students who was a little turbulent like me“he declares without dwelling too much on the subject. Since then, they have filmed numerous times on the same sets (The Little Handkerchiefs and its sequel, The Infidels…) and appeared at several events in pairs or in good company.
