Gérard Depardieu excluded from the promotion of his latest film “Umami”

Zinc Film, the producer and distributor ofUmami, a film in which Gérard Depardieu plays the main role, has decided not to associate the actor with the promotion of the film which will be released in theaters on May 17. The production of the film says: “(…) we reassured ourselves of this, there were no incidents during the filming of the film. We questioned all the teams. No one reported any inappropriate behavior on the part of Gérard Depardieu to the during filming.”

Measures that have been taken after recent testimonies. On April 11, Mediapart revealed that thirteen women accuse the actor of sexual violence. He has already been indicted for suspicion of rape and sexual assault on actress Charlotte Arnould on December 16, 2020. The 74-year-old actor “formally denies all the charges likely to fall under criminal law “, had for his part informed Mediapart the Temime law firm, responsible for defending him. An investigation is still in progress in this context.

A challenged exit

If it was a question of shifting or even canceling the release of the film, the distributor preferred to maintain it: “It is a collective work that has involved many talents. We do not want to reduce to nothing the hundreds of hours of work and the considerable energy that has been deployed (…).”