Jean Dujardin as George Valentin (left) and off screen
Weinstein; Bauer-Griffin
Jean Dujardin likens his high approval cause in his local France to vital “in a big village,” but with the accolades he’s now receiving for his work in The Artist, the large actor had improved get used to carrying fans in America.
“I am thrilled. we am proud. we am over the moon,” Dujardin, vocalization in French, told PEOPLE about his Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations for his purpose as a shade star in the silent, black-and-white pastiche about Hollywood’s rough transition from silent cinema to talkies.
“I’m impossibly surprised. And every day there are new awards, and it’s so unbelievable.”
The honors have been raining down all year. In the spring, Dujardin, 39, was named best actor at the Cannes Film Festival for The Artist – a spin of events he says that he wishes never happened.
“I was thrilled, proud, and unequivocally scared,” he says. “I didn’t wish to go to get the esteem because it’s not my pursuit and because I’m unequivocally shy. It’s a little irrational, because you never think of the prizes. we haven’t had many. we still don’t know if we unequivocally perceived it, in fact.”
Late Starter
Growing adult in the suburbs of Paris, Dujardin didn’t get into behaving until he was 24, when he started essay stand-up comedy sketches in bars. He then graduated to behaving blueprint comedy on TV and had a huge strike with the array Un Gars, Une Fille.
That led to film roles, including for a array of view spoofs destined by Michel Hazanavicius (who’s also obliged for The Artist), and Dujardin is now France’s second highest-grossing star, after Oscar leader Marion Cotillard.
For his prior roles, Dujardin has been likened to Jim Carrey, on comment of his fluent face, but for The Artist he also channels such jaunty Hollywood matinee idols of the past as Gene Kelly and Douglas Fairbanks, and the lover, John Gilbert.
Married … with Children
So, PEOPLE asked, what was it like personification a silent film role?
“For the assembly it’s a silent movie, but for us it’s a articulate movie. We had lines,” Dujardin says. “We spoke in French and English and infrequently gibberish. There was sound on set. It was not a silent set. It was some-more instinctive. Not intellectual. Your physique does the work.”
Currently vital in Paris with his wife, comedian Alexandra Lamy, Dujardin has dual sons and his mother has a daughter, all from prior relationships.
And while he appreciated being able to go unrecognized while he was sharpened The Artist in Hollywood, George Clooney recently gave him some pointers for navigating the awards deteriorate now that he’s in the American spotlight.
“His recommendation was to learn English. It will help you by this,” says Dujardin.
Reporting by LORENZO BENET and CHARLOTTE TRIGGS
Article Source: Celebrity
