He decided not to say anything more. No doubt aware that his statement of March 1, 2022 caused a lot of ink to flow, Gérard Depardieu seems to have calmed down on the subject. Or rather, no longer feels qualified to discuss the war between Ukraine and Russia. A conflict that began on February 20, 2022. More precisely on February 24, when Vladimir Putin speaks on television, seated behind his wooden desk at 5:48 a.m. “I made the decision for a special military operation”he announces coldly while evoking the “denazification of Ukraine” and the “genocide” orchestrated by the Ukrainian government against the pro-Russian separatists in the Donbass, in the east of the country, as underlined The Parisian.
Since then, the war has not stopped and no one is able to say when it will end. Not even Gerard Depardieu. The sacred monster of French cinema had yet spoken six days after the start of the war. In particular to call “stop arms and negotiate”. “Russia and Ukraine have always been brotherly countries. I am against this fratricidal war”he declared, before denouncing, a few days later “crazy unacceptable excesses” of Vladimir Putin. A declaration which has also earned him some problems with the country of which he obtained the nationality in 2013.
Gérard Depardieu no longer wants to talk about Ukraine
Dmitri Peskov, the spokesperson for the Kremlin, responded to the actor who has just given his opinion on Guillaume Canet’s latest Asterix. “I think Depardieu probably doesn’t understand everything that’s going on, because he’s not totally immersed in political news”he replied a few days after the intervention of Gérard Depardieu before adding: “If necessary, we are ready to tell him and explain it to him so that he understands better”.
A warning that seems to have paid off. Indeed, in an interview granted to the German daily Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung for the release across the Rhine of his new film, UmamiGérard Depardieu held a completely different speech. “For me, nothing has changed, I’m still Russian, I love Russian culture, if I love a country, it’s always for its culture”, he assured when our colleagues asked him about the next anniversary of the war in Ukraine. The 74-year-old actor assures him, today he “prefers to avoid talking about the subject, no one is able to say anything really reasonable about it! No one”. “I don’t like that we mix politics and entertainment. I won’t say more on the subject: war is a big bullshit”he finally concluded in an attempt to calm the situation.
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