Les Tuche, Our Happy Days, Podium, The Meaning of the Party… Jean-Paul Rouvé has been stringing together roles since the early 2000s and multiplying the successes! Also noticed in darker films (The Kid, Alone), he had won a César for his interpretation of the collabo Pierre-Jean Lamour in the sublime Mr. Batignole. A great career for an actor who is not used to saving himself.
However, all this could not have happened, as he told the newspaper Madame Figaro recently. Indeed, when he was about to be born, on January 26, 1967, the doctors announced rather terrible news to his father: his mother did not have a large enough pelvis for childbirth and the baby did not pass not.
“They went to see my father saying to him: it will be the mother or the child. It lasted an infinite time. When I left, you couldn’t hear my heart beating anymore“. A midwife, no longer really believing it, puts her stethoscope one last time on the baby, and miracle: he is alive. A traumatic event for his parents, who have long observed him under all the seams.
“They were scared. That my brain hasn’t been oxygenated enough, that I have mental retardation“. Fortunately for them, everything ended up working out for their only son. This one, moreover, is very attached to his parents, whom he often helps financially. Interviewed by Societyhe had revealed that his mother came from a lower middle class but his father from a very working class background.
“Today, my father has a miserable pension despite having worked since the age of 12!“, he confided, revolted. Fortunately, the one who started with the Robin Hoods often helps them. But above all, he does not forget where he comes from. “I have a good life, no money problems. But I try to keep one foot in a France that I knew, a working-class France“.
It is for this reason that Marina Foïs’ friend is so proud to play Jeff Tuche, his character in Olivier Baroux’s now cult film series, which will undoubtedly have a 5th installment in 2024, always with Isabelle Nanty.
But he also likes to take on new challenges like his parody show, Retroscopy, released in 2020, in which he played himself… but as an old man. His new movie, Zai Zai Zai Zaiis a completely crazy comedy, still in the cinema.