Jean Dujardin was crowned with the Oscar for best actor in 2012 for his role in the film The Artist, by Michel Hazanavicius.
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A prestigious award that could have opened the doors to Hollywood for him. However, as Laurent Delahousse recently recalled in the 8:30 p.m. show on Sunday on France 2, this opportunity did not yield many concrete results.
If the actor played in films like Monument’s Men (by George Clooney) and The Wolf of Wall Street (by Martin Scorsese), he subsequently devoted himself mainly to French projects. But Jean Dujardin feels no nostalgia for it.
“My best roles were in France anyway”
Hollywood does not miss the OSS 117 actor “at all”. “The brain is very well done, in fact: it always keeps the best. So I obviously keep these great moments, already knowing at the time that it was all a passage,” he said.
The actor, who plays Zorro in a new series from France Télévision, RAI and ZDF, explains that it is in France that he can develop the roles that suit him. “My best roles were in France anyway. It’s true, it’s confirmed. In any case, that’s what I feel, I don’t need more,” assured the everlasting Brice from Nice.
The Zorro mini-series is co-produced by Jean Dujardin’s production company, Collectif 64 and co-written by Benjamin Charbit and Noé Debré, directed by Emilie Noblet and Jean-Baptiste Saurel.
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