Happy Birthday ! Josée Dayan, cult French director and screenwriter since 1979, celebrates her 80th birthday on October 6th. Who is behind this woman with character and passion? Here you will find everything you need to know.
Summary
Josee Dayan Blow out another candle on October 6, 2023. But do you really know the loudmouth director of the small screen well? Here are his secrets.
Dream of cinema since his youth: His father also in show business
Josée Dayan was born on October 6, 1943 in Toulouse. The Toulouse Nicknamed “my little Balzac” He was born to his mother because of his physique and always dreamed of holding a camera and filming the stars.
In 2019, Josée Dayan spoke on TV5 Monde about this crazy desire to become a director: “It’s the only job I wanted to do. When I was seven years old I decided to make films and you know, I’m very stubborn, very obsessive. So films or nothing.”
Since then, Josée Dayan has had cinema in her blood his late father, Albert Dagnant, was an actor and has appeared in about twenty films.
Josée Dayan directs Captain Marleau: The VIPs jostle each other
Gérard Depardieu, Benjamin Biolay, Arnaud Ducret, Pascal Légitimus… All the stars say yes to appearing in his productions. Since 2015 she has been directing the series “Capitaine Marleau” together with Corinne Masiero. – She has filmed 29 episodes to date, which is a viewership record. The episode with Isabelle Adjani thrilled 8 million viewers!
“I’m the one who chooses all my actors! They both want to come because we’re used to working together and getting along well, but also because it’s fascinating for an actor to have a partner like Corinne! But it’s very destabilizing.” They love it! She improvises a lot,” the director told Sud Radio.
Josée Dayan’s political gift to Corinne Masiero
Very politically active – far left – Corinne Masiero creates atmosphere on the film sets of “Captain Marleau” … situations that one day led the director to give the actress a surprising gift. As she explained on the set of C a Vous in 2021 after Corinne Masiero’s remarkable performance at the Oscars. “For fun one day I gave him a very stylish yellow vest from Berteiljoked Josee Dayan. She is what she is, She is brave. She believes in what she does. I have rarely met anyone as human as she was.
What are the works of Josée Dayan?
Josée Dayan is small (1.63 m) but big in talent. He has produced around sixty programs, mainly for the small screen: La Rivière Espérance (1995), The Count of Monte Cristo (1998), Balzac (1999), Milady (2004). , The Cursed Kings (2005) or Dying to Love (2009), Diane de Poitiers (2022)…
What do we know about his love life?
Josée Dayan is very discreet about her private life and gradually reveals some information about the person who has made her heart beat faster for many years. During her 2020 interview on the show L’instant De Luxe on Non Stop People, the director admitted be in a relationship with a woman. “Her name is Nicole, we have been together for a long time. We have a great relationship.”
A year later, the main topic was back on set and this time she talked about the relationship with fame in her relationship. “If she wants, she can come with me everywhere. Sometimes it annoys her. So she’s not coming.” She has a lot of character. Unlike me, I really like people with character. I hate cowards, I hate the weak, I hate the submissive.”