The Gérard Depardieu affair continues. As a reminder, the scandal exploded following the broadcast ofa report from Complément d’Enquête last December 7. We saw the actor making inappropriate comments towards a little girl on horseback. The images shot by novelist Yann Moix in North Korea had created a lively controversy in the media, but also on social networks.
In the pages of JDDGérard Depardieu’s family immediately hit back, accusing the show of having “a real staging, proceeding with cutaways which we know are necessarily suspicious since we can mount them as we want. The court ultimately ordered the Hikari companyholder of the images, give back “the famous rushesdescribed as manipulated […] for the sake of transparency.
Gérard Depardieu, banned from French cinema?
Despite his “victory”, Gérard Depardieu remains confronted with accusations of rape and sexual assault, which he denies. Will the ogre of French cinema ever set foot on a film set again? Jean-Luc Bideau is convinced of it. “I think Depardieu will play again, but in eight years, if he is still thereassures Parisian the actor that we were able to notably see in the series H. One last role, people will be waiting for it.”
Despite everything, Jean-Luc Bideau approves of the freedom of speech movement which is agitating the world of the 7th art in France. “It’s good that women roarhe maintains. It was necessary, this movement.”[Gérard Depardieu] will pay, right?“, adds this one. In the meantime, BFMTV has denied a rumor according to which the legend of French cinema would star in an Austrian film entitled Travel Agents.
This strong criticism addressed to the supporters of Gérard Depardieu
“I admire Depardieu a lothis career as his journey”admits Jean-Luc Bideau in the columns of The Illustrated. The octogenarian actor nevertheless refuses to defend his colleague: “He did stupid things, he takes responsibility for them”. Nor does he have much opinion of “petitioners who withdraw”such “Jacques Weber and Pierre Richard who, all of a sudden, say: ‘Yes, but…’“.
Jean-Luc Bideau does not cultivate blind admiration for the acting talent of Gérard Depardieu either. At the microphone of Le Parisien, the actor who retired to Switzerland tackles the comedy Retirement home produced by Kev Adams in the credits of which we find the monster of French cinema: “It’s very, very good. Except in Retirement home, where he is a boxer, he is not good. But he’s a genius, eh? He arrived in Paris almost illiterate, and he got it all.”
