2023-12-26 13:37:13
With a spatula
December 26 2023, 7:37 am
Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu was born on December 27, 1948 in Chateauroux, France. The actor turns 74 today amid controversy and loneliness
Some sixty French artists denounced in a forum published in the press a “lynching” from the actor Gérard Depardieu, accused of rape since 2020 and at the center of a political-media scandal after the recent broadcast of a television documentary.
Among the signatories of the tribune, published on Monday in the newspaper Le Figaro, are the director Bertrand Blier, the actresses Nathalie Baye, Carole Bouquet and Charlotte Rampling, the actors Jacques Weber, Pierre Richard and Gérard Darmon, but also singers such as Roberto Alagna , Carla Bruni, Arielle Dombasle and Jacques Dutronc.
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“Gérard Depardieu is probably the greatest of all actors. The last sacred pillar of cinema. We cannot remain silent in the face of the lynching he suffers, in the face of the torrent of hatred that is poured out on him (…) leaving aside the presumption of innocence that he would have enjoyed, like any other person, if he were not the giant of cinema who is”they write.
“When you attack Depardieu like that, you attack the art. Because of his genius as an actor, Gérard participates in the artistic projection of our country,” says the tribune.
“No matter what happens, no one will ever be able to erase the indelible mark of his work, from which our era was forever marked. The rest concerns justice. “Exclusively to justice”add the authors.
Protesters hold banners reading “Shame” and “No forgiveness for the aggressors” as they demonstrate against French actor Gerard Depardieu in front of the Sebastopol Theater where he will perform, in Lille, northern France, on April 19, 2023. More than A dozen women have accused veteran French actor Gerard Depardieu of sexual violence, with some allegations dating back decades, according to a report by French investigative news website Mediapart. (Photo by DENIS CHARLET / AFP)
The French president Emmanuel Macron and members of the actor’s family, including his daughter Julie, had already spoken publicly to defend Gérard Depardieu, accused after one of the two complaints against him in France and which he refutes.
The recent broadcast of a report about the actor, in the program “Research complement” on the France 2 network, caused a shock wave with international repercussions.
In these images, Depardieu multiplies misogynistic and insulting statements by addressing women and a girl with words of a sexual nature.
The France Télévisions group, to which the channel belongs, assured on Friday that the scene before the girl had been “authenticated” by a bailiff of justice.
This reaction came after statements by the head of state that suggested that the sequence had been modified during editing, as previously stated by the actor’s family.
Since the scandal, Gérard Depardieu was expelled from the National Order of Quebec and his title of honorary citizen of the commune of Estaimpuis in Belgium. The wax statue of him was also removed from the famous Grévin museum in Paris.
AFP
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