Daniel Prévost is one of the most respected actors of his generation. No one has forgotten his legendary performance in The stupid dinner alongside Thierry Lhermitte and Jacques Villeret in 1998 for which he won the César for Best Supporting Actor the following year. This success, Daniel Prévost experienced it with all the people in the profession but also with his wife Jette Bertelsen who did not hesitate to accompany him on filming to spend the most time with him. Until tragedy.
In March 2007, Daniel Prévost was asked by Olivier Langlois to shoot in his next TV movie, Mr Joseph, in which he starred. The filming of the Franco-Belgian production takes place between the Nord department and Belgium. Adventure during which Jette Bertelsen ends up joining him. At the time, she stayed at the Hôtel Hermitage Gantois in Lille, very close to the Porte de Paris. Everything was going smoothly before Daniel Prévost learned of the death of his wife.
Jette Bertelsen’s lifeless body was reportedly found in the bathtub of the room she was occupying at the time by a hotel employee. This disappearance put an end to years of marriage, from which were born three children: Søren, Erling and Christophe. If he was shocked and dejected by the news, Daniel Prévost finally got up from this ordeal that no one thinks he can overcome. His strength, he found it in the hearts of his children, in the writing of a book – You will never know how much I love youpublished by Editions du Cherche midi in 2018 in honor of his late wife – and in life in general.
On the waves of RTL for the release of the book, Daniel Prévost had returned to the death of his wife and had delivered on the way in which he had gone up the slope: “Mourning will always be present but, besides that, there is life that goes on. […] We resonate in reverse. Suddenly, you have a moment of latency. And then, little by little, we let ourselves be pushed by life […] and we say to ourselves ‘I must continue to live’.“A rule he is determined to follow until the end of his life!