Those, many, who have seen him at his best in “The Artist”, the Oscar-winning silent film by Michel Hazanavicius know how expressive this actor is, able to review the whole palette of feelings by magic alone. of his features. A gift that had even made jealous an expert in the field, his colleague Jim Carrey, whose elastic face had done wonders in “The Mask”. Jean Dujardin doesn’t need words to convey a message, and he knows how to play this quality perfectly. He has once again given proof of this in a video that has just resurfaced.
The journalist fell in love with the actor
The scene takes place on the TF1 20 hour set, in August 2021. Like every Sunday, the attractive Audrey Crespo-Mara, Anne-Claire Coudray’s summer joker at the weekend welcomes an actor who has come to present her film. That evening, Jean Dujardin came to defend the third episode of the adventures of Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, stupid and macho French spy, “OSS 117: Red alert in black Africa”.
Thierry Ardisson’s companion, both amused and charmed by his guest who pulls out all the stops, asks him to demonstrate his expressive skills. Without being asked, Jean performs, commenting on his improvised charm number live, in front of cameras that do not miss a beat: “You see, there I look glorious. And there I seduce you, well I believe, he said smiling. There I look like the guy who doesn’t doubt. There, it’s more difficult, I have a completely empty look “.
Blown away by the performance of the actor asks him how he manages to achieve such a performance. The answer does not appear on the video, but it is a safe bet that the inventor of the character of Brice de Nice drew from his early experience of the one-man-show the habit of fixing and seducing the spectators straight in the eyes. And Nathalie Péchalat, ex-high level skater and woman of his life, can rest easy. That evening, Jean was just doing his job…
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