This Thursday, October 20, 2022, Daniel Prévost blows out his 83rd candle. If the actor’s overflowing humor has not diminished over the years, he nevertheless experienced a tragedy that marked him in the depths of his being on the sentimental side.
Life sometimes does not give us a gift… Daniel Prévost, master of dark humor and the second degree of the French scene, drew its strength from comedy. A true chameleon of the seventh art, the one who celebrates his 83rd birthday this Thursday, October 20, 2022 has navigated between cinema, television and the boards. In the 1960s, during his crazy rise, the comedian, who was at a festival in Denmark, meta beautiful Danish responding to the name of Jette Bertelsen, it’s love at first sight! These then passed in front of the altar and had three children, Søren, Erling and Christophe Prévost. However, a terrible event intervenes while the couple swims in happiness. On March 19, 2007, the actor lose the love of his life.
The drama occurs while Daniel Prévost is on the set of the TV movie Mr Josephby Olivier Langlois. A work in which the actor portrays the character of an Algerian bookseller working in a small town in the north of France and who observes the mysterious disappearance of his wife. The track of murder is then privileged. A difficult role that earned him the award for best performance male at the 2007 La Rochelle TV Fiction Festival, but which also came up against reality, since behind the scenes, the actor really lost this loved one to his heart. While Jette Bertelsen had accompanied her on the set and was staying in a hotel located in Lille, she was found died in her bathtub by an employee of the establishment. A shock…
Daniel Prévost: “Mourning will always be present”
For to express one’s sorrow, Daniel Prévost took out his pen and wroteYou will never know how much I love you. “This is not the story of my life, but it is true that the disappearance of my wife acted as a detonator. I needed to write to rebuild myself because after a tragedy you need to recreate something. And this license to rebuild, you will get it with your family, with those who remain”, he confided to Le Figaro, in 2018. If time has done its work and allowed his wound to heal, the wound nevertheless did not completely disappear, as he hinted on the airwaves of RTL: “We do not get rid of a mourning like that, overnight. The mourning will always be present, but, besides that, there is life that goes on.”