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Jean Dujardin: "It's a lot of fun to do, the Sarkozy"

2021-06-30T08:53:45.228Z


INTERVIEW - In “Presidents”, Anne Fontaine's new film, the actor plays the former head of state. An exercise in style.


Jean Dujardin is currently shooting

November

, by Cédric Jimenez, story of the hunt that followed the attacks of November 13.

Not a funny movie at all.

Before meeting him in Cannes for

OSS 117.

Red alert in black Africa

, presented at the end of the festival (in theaters on August 4), the actor once again demonstrates his comic genius in real-false Nicolas Sarkozy in

Presidents

, by Anne Fontaine.

LE FIGARO.

- According to Anne Fontaine, your Nicolas is an

“evocation”

of Nicolas Sarkozy…

Jean Dujardin.

-

I have another word other than evocation: diversion.

That's what I do on OSS 117. I hijack Sean Connery in the first, Paul Newman in the second.

There, it is the same thing.

I start from a real character.

I take his verticality and his small voice.

I amuse myself by picking up his pockets.

It is neither him nor me but a kind of hybrid.

The hybrid works quite well.

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OSS 117 is back ... The secrets of star Jean Dujardin

Have you met him?

Yes.

It's a lot of fun doing the Sarkozy.

I think everyone has their Sarkozy in mind.

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Source: lefigaro

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