Why hasn’t Jean Dujardin had a bigger career in the states?

Frog.

Too fat.

We need to see him fully naked is order to make a better assessment of his acting skills.

Because his English was and is still terrible, that's why. Same reason Ziyi Zhang didn't make it in Hollywood. You can wing it if you're a marvelous director, but an actor who needs to do junkets all the time? No.

He’s a beauty

How many films does Hollywood make that require a middle-aged Frenchman? They no longer make the continental romances of the like that Charles Boyer starred in back in the day. I'd love to see him in more American films, but c'est la vie.

Maybe he's not interested. The French film industry is big enough that an actor can make a good living there.

I love his imperfect smile. Adds character to his very natural beauty

R7 of course. Some actors have gone to other countries for career films and been very successful.

But Javier Bardem hit it relatively big.

They were locked in a Datalounge dead heat in a poll a couple years ago.

Female foreign actresses who win Oscars tend to better then their male counterparts. He’d be great for a series or supporting roles. Unsure if his English has improved since his Oscar win, but there are many platforms today for any actor especially one with an Oscar.

Do better ^^^

I would take his “fat” body over the ridiculous ripped bodies that look plastic any day R2.

He’s gorgeous.

And I’ll take his naturally beautiful face over the manufactured ones like Miss Cooper

He didn’t play the Hollywood game the way Marion Cotillard did. Simple.

R15 he lacks a vagina to use on all those straight white men in Hollywood like she has.

He did a gay sex scene in “The Players”

He’s really hot. Like other said, France has a big enough industry for him to maintain a career—maybe it’s not worth it for him to move to the US and play the game here.

Everything isn’t about America all the time, is it?

R19 no but he is talented.

Is there room for him in The Fast and The Furious Part 9247?

R7 I think that's it. He said in an interview once about moving to Hollywood, it's not for him, even his name Dujardin-of the garden, from the backyard, homegrown, says he's happy where he is. Well, something like that. Anyway he already has an Oscar!

Needs to lose twenty pounds.

He’s striking

French he-men go to Hollywood and can't stomach just how trashy it and everyone is. France has a very high tax bracket for the rich. Everyone who stays and works and lives in France who is rich is either very very very rich, or simply not that greedy and materialistic to be motivated to put up with non-French vulgarity.

His kind of suave, man-of-the-world can only be treated as a joke, at least in the US....A sexy, sophisticated man? Oh, COME ON. Are we talking Mike Myers here????

Also, he looks older than he is (47). Hollywood likes a slicker "silver fox".

I'm watching THE ARTIST now for the first time.... and I have more questions than answers!

Did the Academy go a bit overboard with the FIVE Oscars? I mean, this is basically SINGING IN THE RAIN, right?

Dujardin is wonderful, sexy, and charming, but was the expectation that he would work more in America? Or did the Academy just say, fuck it, it's time for another Roberto Benigni, it's fine if we never see him again?

Didn't fans of THE ARTIST find the musical score obnoxious, cloying, and intrusive? How the F did this win Best Score? I'm 30 minutes into the movie, and I want to watch the rest of it on mute.

How is it that the director, Michel Hazanavicius, has only directed 3 films in the almost 9 years since THE ARTIST?

And did anyone else think Penelope Ann Miller could have played Dujardin's mother as opposed to his wife, she looks so damn old?

Just saying.

He is gorgeous. Want him inside me deeply.

He's handsome but the language barrier was too great. And he had no connections in Hollywood to speak of...

I recently read a review with Antonio Banderas, and he said when he came to the US to work, he thought if he learned the language he'd be fine--but what he didn't realize is that even with fluent English he would be unable to master the accent. And by the time he really realized that, he had fathered a daughter with Melanie Griffith and was stuck here for the next eighteen years, and was stuck having to take basically any part that came his way in any genre that required a strong Spanish accent, since he could speak English no other way. Now his daughter is an adult he's moved back to Spain, where his choices are much broader.

I think Jean Dujardin was smarter than Banderas. His big film in the US did not require him to talk, and once he won the Oscar he could go back to France an even bigger star there than before. Had he stayed here, he would have had to scramble for whatever roles came up ever that require a French accent (his is very thick). He made the smart choice.

I bet he has a huge uncut cock!

The question is how did he win an Oscar, not why didn't he make it in Hollywood.

Same with Gael Garcia Bernal. I thought he would blow up after The Motorcycle Diaries, but the last thing I heard from him is Mozart in the jungle.

It's a shame because he was hot and talented.

[quote] Same with Gael Garcia Bernal. I thought he would blow up after The Motorcycle Diaries, but the last thing I heard from him is Mozart in the jungle.

Again, as with Dujardin: Most of his work since has been for the Latin American cinema. There are not a lot of good roles written for men with heavy Mexican accents in Hollywood, so his choice there is very limited; there are all kinds of roles available to him in Mexican cinema, and as one of the biggest Mexican male film stars, he has first pick.

Personally I thought The Artist was by far the best film that year, and it's the one that's stuck with me over the intervening years whereas I can barely remember what films were acclaimed in the years surrounding 2012. It's a shame that Dujardin didn't get more work in American films, but I'd hate to see him suppressing his accent and turning himself into Bradley Cooper v 2.0 in pursuit of success here.

he's probably smart enough to not want one, OP.

not all foreigners desire to come here and star in redone comic books.

Yes, foreigners just hate those gigantic Hollywood paychecks and international superstardom. Money and celebrity is for suckers, just ask Jean.

Marion Cotillard should get the fuck back to France too because her English-language performances are atrocious. When you watch her act in her native language it's hard to believe it's even the same person you're watching.

Because America has already has glut of bad actors.

Overall he is a middle of the road actor. Not great, not bad just good/average. Also, he would be hard to cast in leading roles, however supporting roles should generally not be a problem.

Also, he has a huge career in France and may not be that interested in working in the US on a regular basis.

Biggest obstacle was the fact that he was never famous.

I’ve never understood why interesting actors like Banderas or Dujardin should only be cast in “foreigner” roles. Pretty much any action movie, rom com or thriller would work with a French guy or a Spanish guy in the lead, don’t you think? All they need to do is toss in a line into the script about the character having immigrated to the US or whatever. But no, the lead in every American movie has to go to some fucking bland guy named Chris

[quote] Pretty much any action movie, rom com or thriller would work with a French guy or a Spanish guy in the lead, don’t you think?

Well, that's pretty much what Banderas got--but they became few and far between. But he did not get the juicy dramatic roles he wanted.

Dujardin best likes doing comedy, and it's harder to be funny in a language not your own.

I think Dujardin's a classically handsome man and quite talented as an actor. ( In terms of looks, he reminds me a little of Jack Davenport, as Peter Smith-Kingsley, in [italic] The Talented Mr. Ripley. [/italic] ) To be honest though, I've only seen him in [italic] The Wolf Of Wall Street, [/italic] and [italic] The Artist [/italic] , despite him being in a number of other French and American films before and after those two. I'm aware they exist, I just haven't seen them around.

Also, you run into the "ONJ in 'Grease'" problem: even ju7st a line or two explaining you're something like a foreign exchange student seems pretty contrived.

In most of Arnold Schwarzenegger's films, they avoided this problem by just ignoring the thick accent altogether: but you can only do that for a huge box office star people will see no matter what,. and of course Scxhwarzenegger got mocked all the time for his heavy accent.

Finally, there's another truth we people from the US don't often like to admit, but is nonetheless true:

A lot of people from foreign countries just plain-out don't want to live and work in our country. They'd rather stay in their native countries, and especially not have to deal with the falsity that is Hollywood.

I am ready, Fantine!

If foreign-born actors want to work in American film and TV, how is it that some (like Banderas and others) are unable to lose their native accents?

American film and TV is filled with leading actors from all regions of the UK, Australia, Canada, South Africa (eg, Charlize), Austria (Christophe Waltz), Kenya (Lupita N), India (Freida Pinto), just to name a few, all of whom can turn their accents on and off at will. Is it just a matter of training?

Of course, there are a handful like Sofia Vergara and Liam Neeson who never really shake their accents and work all the time, but they're exceptions.

It's too bad he was 10 years too late for the Ocean's 11 series because he definitely would have been great in those movies. He is classically handsome and is so suave in a suit. And he would have been able to use his comedic timing.

He is extremely charming, charismatic and handsome. His face is so handsome.

Dujardin is handsome in the way Jon Hamm is handsome. I love that dark-haired, masculine, mature look, but it's not in fashion in Hollywood at the moment.

Also, leading men in American movies almost never have an accent unless it's British or Australian. Even then, the Brits and Ozzies usually learn an American accent to get more roles. It's much easier to learn another accent of English than it is to lose a non-English accent. People who learn English as adults almost always retain a noticeable accent; French people especially tend to sound very foreign unless they learned English as children and use it all the time, as French Canadians do.

Dujardin is a million times more handsome than Hamm.

Dujardin could play Brando. You can do that with a French accent. Or he looks like a Streisand leading man. He could play Herbie when she makes Gypsy!

A becauso hea noa speaka English.

[quote] There are not a lot of good roles written for men with heavy Mexican accents in Hollywood

Gael has played an American veteran before. He can speak English without accent. Hollywood just doesn’t want to hire Hispanics. Period.

R56 nailed it. This is the case of Antonio Banderas also. DL can scream he is white all day, but he doesn’t get treated as white in this Country, or have top picks etc. like white actors. This is why he claims he is a man of color.

Being a white Hispanic doesn’t erase you being Hispanic, and automatically places you under “other” to most white people.

pics of his cock?

Unlike Banderas, Dujardin did not strip naked and get fucked on camera early in his career (Almodover's "Law of Desire").

I always believed that hot as fuck scene launched Antonio's US career

Banderas did not get fucked on camera. He simulated getting fucked on camera. Big difference.

not to the audience

Honey, I saw the film when it premiered. Everyone knew he was not actually getting fucked on camera.

It’s a movie. Not a porn.

R47 Monica bellucci is like that. I remember an article saying she could never live in Hollywood because the women never eat and they're so frail and skinny and that she's Italian and she loves pasta and bread.

I guess that's why the only major American film she was in was The Matrix Reloaded. The rest were all French films.

Monica is my twin from another mother, I swear!

Tell that fat cow Monica to shut her trap.

OP, damn he is hot. Sexy

He's French so it would never work but his look and manner would have been perfect for James Bond.

At this point Jean Dujardin is too old to be a leading man in American films. Plus he barely knew any English even well into his adulthood--he comes from a working class background I'm pretty sure and probably left school pretty young. He was really sexy in those early spy comedies he made in France, which were James Bond comic knockoffs. Also in France famous leading men work until they're over 70 so he can have much greater career longevity over there. Why should he come here? I'm sure he makes plenty of money in French films, relatively speaking, and he can enjoy life, which French people want to do.

Bump.