In life as on screen, Gilles Lellouche and Jean Dujardin are inseparable. This Monday, January 16, 2023, the two acolytes were also on the poster for Cédric Jimenez’s famous detective film, “La French”, broadcast on France 3. A feature film which only confirmed their complicity since it 50-year-old actors have been united for more than 15 years. But while Ava’s dad leads a brilliant career in the 7th art, the latter has long been considered as the simple “friend of”. A title that sticks to his skin and that would not always have been easy to manage. “You look in the dictionary: at ‘copain’, you see Gilles Lellouche”confided Jean Dujardin in the columns of So Film in 2019 before adding: “Gillou, he suffered from this image of ‘friend of’ or ‘friend of’ Jean Dujardin. To see Guillaume, me, thing, pass in front of him and to have stayed too long in the hut of the good friend ». And to continue: “He has a slower career but that doesn’t mean anything. He went through the circuit sixth role, fifth role, fourth role… And last year, he made the grand slam. »
“The perpetually dissatisfied actor”
If he could suffer from this status, Gilles Lellouche never felt the slightest jealousy. On the contrary, “It has been very inspiring to watch them grow. I learned from their experiences”he explained to our colleagues from the magazine Psychologies. ” The idea of the perpetually dissatisfied actor bothers me. Rather than envying the careers of others, look at what you have: for me, a last in class, coming from the countryside, getting where I am… It’s already miraculous. » Touching confidences.
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