Silent is Golden: A Chat With The Artist?s Leading Man (and Oscar Frontrunner) Jean Dujardin

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Silent is Golden: A Chat With The Artists Leading Man (and Oscar Frontrunner) Jean DujardinA little over six months ago, before The Artist premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, it might have been unthinkable to foresee what has since evolved into a very real possibility: Jean Dujardin, a bona fide movie star in his native France but relative unknown in the United States, is as likely as any contender to date to win an Academy Award for Best Actor. Which would be surprising enough without The Artist being a black-and-white French import — a silent black-and-white French import.

But there you have it: Writer-director Michel Hazanavicius’s breezy dramedy about a silent-era Hollywood legend cast away by the advent of talkies has become pretty much the story of the year’s awards derby, with Dujardin, who won the Best Actor prize at Cannes, running neck-and-neck for the same prize at the upcoming Academy Awards. How did they do it? It’s a long story — one we’ll be exploring off and on here at Movieline in the week to come as The Artist finally opens theatrically Stateside. But let it suffice to say that Dujardin, whose previous OSS 117 spy send-ups with Hazanavicius have enjoyed great success in their homeland, embodies protagonist George Valentin’s exile with wry, romantic class for which there really are no words.

Nevertheless, Movieline caught up with Dujardin, who spoke through a translator about the Artist whirlwind, the science of silence, his brilliant canine co-star, and finally getting to know Hollywood.

You’ve been on Artist duty since Cannes. Is there anything I can ask you about this film that you haven’t already been asked?
Oh. Ahhh… [Long pause] They don’t ask often if I have fun. They ask me to explain what is unexplainable. It’s a…

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