Impossible to have never heard of Zorro, this famous fictional character created by Johnston McCulley in 1919. The masked vigilante who responds to the name of Don Diego de la Vega in everyday life, a nobleman who uses his alter ego to defend the oppressed against injustice and corruption, returns in a revisited version. It is Jean Dujardin who takes on the features of the man who signs his exploits with a “Z” traced on the point of his sword. After a first broadcast on Paramount +, the series with the actor arrives this Monday, December 23 on France 2 at 9:05 p.m. On this occasion, the father of two girls spoke to Monaco-Matin. If it was a childhood dream, Jean Dujardin admitted that he would not have “never hoped to do it”.
A childhood dream
“It's something that I put out into the universe twenty years ago, perhaps in an interview, saying that if there was a somewhat illustrious role to play, it would be Zorro. But I didn't see why we would make a French Zorro, even though Alain Delon had made one. But it was a bit vain. It was a childhood memory, and it became a reality. 'adult”he declared. The actor explained the choice to offer a program between first degree and parody, with a very French tone.
“In fact, if we start picking the Americans' pockets, that is to say, we try to go into something that is constantly in motion and we are almost beaten. And then, it's true that it's not our culture What's funny is to always have this kind of hindsight, this kind of second degree which means that I can give you the illusion that he's a Zorro but he is. there is always this way of talking about human problems, and of French”he detailed.
Jean Dujardin stressed?
If he is stressed before the broadcast of the first episodes of the series this Monday, December 23? Nope. Jean Dujardin declared to our colleagues: “Generally, I avoid feeling stressed when I have the impression, at the end of filming, that we worked pretty well and that we sweated a lot. It's no longer useful in fact. I think that everyone worked very well and that we all had the same vision, whether for the costumes, the sets, the acting, the staging A priori, if we mess up, it’s because we’re doing it right. really bad will”.
Aware that it might not interest the public, because they attacked “to a legend called Zorro”the artist clarified: “If everyone waits for their own Zorro, it will be very complicated because we won’t be able to please everyone”. Then continue: “We proposed something that is rather original, at the same time adventure, drama and comedy. This mixture seems to please people if we are to believe the first feedback. 'desire and hope that you will enjoy it as much as we enjoyed doing it'. See you this evening at 9:05 p.m. on France 2 to form your own opinion!
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