VIDEO. For “The Guardians of the Planet”, Jean Dujardin raises awareness of marine pollution

“It’s heartbreaking, because you tell yourself that there are so many and there are every day”, describes Jean Dujardin. The actor lends his voice to tell the story of cetaceans in “The Guardians of the Planet”. The documentary, directed by Jean-Albert Lièvre, will be released in cinemas on February 22. On occasion, the actor and the director carried out an action with the association Project Rescue Ocean, by cleaning and collecting waste on a beach in Valras-Plage, in Occitanie.

“If we do nothing, there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans”

“We know that almost 8 million tonnes of plastic per year go into the oceans. And if we don’t raise awareness, if we don’t do anything, in 50 years there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans. It’s one of the scourges for marine mammals because they take plastic for mollusks, planktons or stuff, they choke, they swallow it”, describes Jean-Albert Lièvre.

“It has to become for kids, whether on a beach, in a street in a valley, in the mountains or anywhere an anomaly, in fact, it’s that, all of a sudden, a piece of plastic, a can, a bottle, something lying around, something that does not go with nature, something that is not natural, immediately I pick it up, immediately I have the reflex, I put it in my dig, I put it in a trash can, I put it in a bag”, thinks Jean Dujardin.