the60stwist:

The granddaughter of silent film star Douglas Fairbanks wrote this letter to Jean Dujardin.

An Open Letter to Jean Dujardin

Dear Mr. Dujardin,

I just wish to send you a very short note to say, thank you, for the magnificent film — The Artist. Not only because it is brilliant on a global scale, but also because for me personally, it was as if there were moments when I thought I saw my grandfather, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. in front of my very own eyes!

An extraordinary experience, and at times — completely surreal! I don’t know how much of an influence he was for your interpretation of the part — but it seems to me that you have really embodied his dynamic spirit, his joie de vivre and an aspect of his that I often feel on watching his films where I find myself between tears and laughter.

He understood how to really touch profound feelings and you do the same thing. Unfortunately, he died seven years before I was born, but I always felt an especially deep connection with him — even more than I felt with my own father.

Now I am quite an old lady, but I sent my children and grandchildren to see your film. They loved it as well, recognizing also a kind of Ogenetic resonance! So, in closing, a big thank you for having touched our hearts in such an important manner. I wish you all the best for your future and thank you for having brought magic — a magic apparent to all the world — but for me, something personal and a profoundly touching experience.

Melissa Fairbanks
London, England

cinemastatic:

Michel Hazanavicius with Jean Dujardin and Uggie on the set of The Artist

dragonarmansky:

While Dujardin is almost completely silent throughout The Artist, the actor still had to speak his lines while being filmed. But since the film used cards to relate the dialogue, it didn’t matter what language he spoke. “Sometimes, I acted in English, sometimes in French,” he says. “And sometimes, I was just speaking complete gibberish.”

- Entertainment Weekly

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