Actor Jean Dujardin has clearly still not digested the mockery made against the opening ceremony of last year's Rugby World Cup, and made the comparison with that of the Paris Olympics.
Jean Dujardin bitter about the difference in treatment between the Rugby World Cup and the Paris Olympics
Jean Dujardin has clearly still not digested the criticism made about the opening ceremony of the Rugby World Cup, in which he participated. A central figure with multiple hats in a France supposed to “celebrate the French art of living”, with an action taking place in the 1950s,the actor was mocked, as was the ceremony, which was deemed too clichéd and corny.
At the time, the star of OSS 117 and The Artist was angry, and regretted that the second degree that motivated this moment of celebration had not been understood. Invited on the set of Quotidien on Tuesday, September 3, the one who is currently on the bill for Zorro on Paramount+returned to the case, this time comparing it to the closing ceremony of the 2024 Olympics this summer.
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“when there is Tom Cruise who goes down, everyone applauds”
Slightly bitter, he does not understand the difference in treatment between a “good-natured”, “joyful” and “done with little means” ceremony and another more grandiloquent one. The actor takes as a symbol the show of Tom Cruise, more applauded.
“It was joyful, it was naive, when in fact, it was just good-natured. We had little means, we were with volunteers, we tried to do it well (…) There's Tom Cruise coming down, everyone applauds, and I'm like FU*K! I'm thinking, isn't this country good or what?I'm not bitter, he continues, I laugh about it because it was a very nice memory. And what's more, we won that match against the All Blacks, it was wonderful. And definitely, Paris is not France. (…) Çit will remain good.»
Impossible is not Tom Cruise coming down in the middle of the Stade de France! #Paris2024 #closingceremony pic.twitter.com/XL1i4ffM16
August 11, 2024
As a reminder, the French actor landed on a 40-meter wire on an Eiffel Tower. When Tom Cruise made a thunderous arrival by jumping from the roof (along a wire to the ground) of the Stade de France. Let us also recall that unlike the closing ceremony, the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics was also strongly criticized, to the point of raising a major controversy, born from the painting Festivity, a representation of the Meal of Bacchus, here revisited by drag queens and by the singer Philippe Katerine naked.