“It’s complicated”: Jean Dujardin, the father of four children protected by his family, his safeguard

On October 30, 2024, for Claude Lelouch's latest feature film, EventuallyJean Dujardin attended the advent, without the mother of his daughters Jeanne and Alice, Nathalie Péchalat. And yet, in the face of adversity, he was always able to count on the presence of his family at his side. A necessary safeguard for the Oscar-winning actor, as his friend Patrick Sébastien rightly reminded us on October 31. Guest of Buzz TV, the host talks about his new project in which he looks back on these personalities he has encountered throughout his career, including Jean Dujardin, whom he “adore“.

The opportunity to talk more intimately about this man who made the whole of France dream. Patrick Sébastien returned in particular to the beginnings of this one, far before the glory and the spotlight of The Artist. His debut with Nous Ç Nous. “They became the Nous Ç Nous and I offered them something to do sketches for a little over a year. I made a little theater for them like that, the show was called Fiesta. They were there every month“, he recalled. Alongside Jean Dujardin, Éric Massot, Emmanuel Joucla, Bruno Salomone and Éric Collado, all were also part of this troupe created in 1994.

The confidences of Jean Dujardin to Patrick Sébastien

What Patrick Sébastien particularly likes about the ex-star of A Guy, A Girl is that he knew how to keep it simple. And it probably would have been more difficult without his family by his side.”I love Jean because he has remained very attached to his roots, but he has a family, that's the key. He has his family who act as a safeguard and protect him because it's complicated“, he said. It was after the Oscars that the period was even easier for the father of Jules, Simon, Jeanne and Alice Dujardin. He would have confided to the host: “I'm in a golden prison, I can't move“. But this “complicated” celebrity, all the more so in the age of selfies, as Patrick Sébastien affirmed, will not have got the better of the happiness of the actor, who lives far from the tumult of Paris, with Nathalie Péchalat and their daughters in Saint-Cloudin a private area.