“Don’t get drunk and blow people up”: Jean Dujardin tells us about his projects after “Black Trails”

In November by Cédric Jimenez last October, Jean Dujardin is back in theaters this week with Denis Imbert’s Sur les Chemins noirs.

Adapted from Sylvain Tesson’s novel, the film tells the story of Pierre, an investigative writer, who falls several stories one evening drunk. This accident put him in a deep coma.

On his hospital bed, he vowed to walk across France from the Mercantile to the Cotentin. A unique and timeless journey to meet the beauty of hyper-rural, French and self-reinvention.

A powerful feature film that traces the journey of a damaged man rediscovering life, taming his new body and appreciating it.

During the promotion of the feature film, we asked Jean Dujardin about his projects and the actor told us that he has nothing concrete planned at the moment.

He specifies: “In fact, there is nothing. There are lines that I put in the water that I watch and the fish come up. Could be a project Xavier Gianoli. Could be a serial project Zoro. I spoke to the producers…

But the fact is that it happens: nothing happened. I’m also coming off a six-month streak, so space is taking up. It was November, the space was occupied. There were many things.

I think I need to move a bit so that I don’t get too drunk and piss people off.

But I like these moments of rest, it allows me to come back to see my contemporaries. to inspire me elsewhere.”

The French actor has indeed just finished shooting Alphonse, the first series of Nicolas Bedouis, with whom he has already collaborated on OSS 117: Red Alert in Black Africa.

The 6-episode comedy, scheduled to air on Prime Video later this year, also stars Charlotte Gainsbourg, Pierre Ardit and Nicole Garcia. Jean Dujardin will take on the title role, Alphonse, a man responsible for satisfying a woman’s desires at a negotiated price…

The Oscar-winning actor is set to continue the Zorro series for France Télévisions and can therefore film under the direction of Xavier Janol, to whom we owe the multi-award-winning Illusions Perdues.

Recently interviewed on the TF1 show from seven to eightThe actor returned to the Oscar received in 2012 for the artist Michel Hazanavicius.

The Oscars were never the Holy Grail

He specifies: “I don’t want to be the richest. This job suits me very well, it was going very well before the Oscars, it is going very well now, because I try to continue, to be consistent in my choices. But it was never the Holy Grail.”.

Then Jean Dujardin adds: “I don’t enjoy playing in English. (…) I find it quite exotic to do it from time to time, as I could George Clooney or In Wolf of Wall Street. It’s pretty fun though because it’s exotic and rare. The idea is still to return to the parent company. My best roles are here, without a doubt.”.

Therefore, Jean Dujardin is not going to make a career in the United States and prefers to take time to choose his projects and not be everywhere, so as not to “inflate people”, as he says.

Sur les chemins noirs can be seen in our cinemas.