At 54 years old, Jean-Paul Rouve has made a great place for himself in French cinema and, for a decade now, he has attracted millions of spectators in theaters with the family saga of Tuche, in which he plays the father, Jeff. A box-office success which obviously has financial repercussions, the actor logically receiving good checks. But he is not a high roller, far from it!
Asked by the newspaper The Parisian in his edition of Wednesday, December 8, Jean-Paul Rouve thus underlined the points in common with his character, a nice unemployed beau – but a millionaire thanks to an extraordinary gain in the lottery – in his fifties with modest origins. “It’s us [avec sa complice Isabelle Nanty, alias Cathy Tuche, NDLR]. This classy thing, we always keep it. There are still restaurants in Paris where I don’t feel very comfortable. And people who I tell myself are looking at me a little with condescension. The worst is that we say to ourselves: They are right, I am nothing“, says the actor from Dunkirk, in the North.
Jean-Paul Rouve is earning a very good living today thanks to his successful career of Podium To our happy days Passing by The sense of celebration and, if he is not ashamed of it, he does not flaunt it. Moreover, rather than blazing by affording luxury cars or expensive watches, he uses part of his money to help … his parents. The latter, like millions of French people, have a small retirement. “I have a good life, I don’t have money problems. But I try to keep one foot in a France that I have known, a working-class France, but not the area either. Low middle class, let’s say“, he said in the pages of the magazine Society last January.
There is no doubt that the actor also taught his son Clotaire (14 years old) – born of his love affair with Bénédicte Martin – the value of money, effort, work.