Jean Dujardin and Guillaume Canet made the 400 moves like Antoine Doinel. No, we're not talking to you about the diptych The Little Handkerchiefs / We will finish
set produced by Canet in which Dujardin appears briefly. Although, already, in these two films, the actor-director offers his friend a role on the sly whose aura hangs over the rest of the cast. But, no, in reality, the two performers met when they were kids, on school benches. Jean Dujardin talks about his
schooling with Guillaume Canet well before the
celebrity.
Jean Dujardin: leader of French cinema
In the mid-90s, a young man enjoyed immense success in the talent show Graines de star. His name is Jean Dujardin, he still has acne and wins the support of the public thanks to his crazy characters on stage. In particular a stupid surfer like his board named Briceoriginally from Nice.
30 years later, Jean Dujardin is no longer a nobody
who is trying to break through. A little over ten years ago, he even won an Oscar for best actor for The Artist
! A success story incredible, that of a French actor who conquered, for a time, Hollywood. But the actor does not forget France, as evidenced by his substantial filmography.
The actor filmed for Guillaume Canet
Recently, Jean Dujardin starred in the nervous thriller
November drawing its essence from the Paris attacks. The best role of his career. The actor is also at ease in serious films, such as A balcony overlooking the seathat the wild comedies way OSS 117.
And then there is the fine line between the two like his collaborations with Guillaume Canet.
Jean Dujardin appears very little in the double The Little Handkerchiefs / We will end up together. And for good reason, he plays a man who kills himself and whose death crystallizes the relationships between his group of friends. A finer role than you might think, low profile, whose absence on screen ultimately turns out to be more important than his three scenes in the films.
Dujardin went to the same school as Canet
Jean Dujardin and Guillaume Canet have known each other for a long time. Long before the adventure of Small handkerchiefs. The two met at school, in CM1! In 2015, the interpreter ofOSS 117 evokes his youthful memories with his sidekick at the microphoneEurope 1.
“We were in the same class, in CM1, in the same town in Yvelines.”, says Dujardin.
“We did catechism together and we even took our communions together. He hasn't changed, he still has his little face and the same smile.” However, the two do not share the same passions in the playground :
“He played a lot of football, I talked to the girls. I didn't play football, it always pissed me off.“Jean Dujardin and Guillaume Canet were predestined to end up together.
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