The magazine Marianne devotes an investigation to him, published on Saturday January 28, 2023, on the eve of his biggest cinematographic bet. Guillaume Canet embarked on an adventure that was more than risky financially but also from every point of view to adapt an original story inspired by the famous characters created by Uderzo and Goscinny. Asterix and Obelix: The Middle Kingdomwhose theatrical release is scheduled for Wednesday 1er February, required some 63 million euros of budget and more than four years of work. A crazy idea which must, to be amortized, accommodate between 6 to 8 million viewers according to our colleagues. An idea that many people in the industry would have declined before the script ended up in the hands of Guillaume Canet.“Maybe I saw somesimilarities with my own life…”reports the weekly, he who saw himself at first sight in Caesar, like him “depressive“and “madly in love with a Cleopatra who has just conquered the marketChinese”like a conqueror Marion Cotillard from whom he is now separated. The actor has fortunately become Asterix in this new Opus. A rough character but full of humor, sensitive and feisty at the same time… often good advice but against a background of pessimism.
Investigation. The image that the public has of Guillaume Canet? The ideal son-in-law, good ecologist, support for farmers and owner of French cinema. However, like everyone else, the actor has his flaws… https://t.co/jRTACoPy1u
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“His life is an extreme sport!”
A tailor-made role according to the columns of Marianne : “I don’t know if taking up meditation helped me in this, but I became more fatalistic”Guillaume Canet told them. José Garcia, who plays Biopix (Bigrapher of César in the film), adds:“Guillaume enjoys constraint, it galvanizes him”.And to develop: “During filming in Auvergne under apocalyptic weather, while everyone was returning to their hotel, Guillaume never left his caravan moored to the set. First on site, last in bed, to sort out a thousand details for the next day. Anyway, he’s an early riser, who sleeps badly. And a fan of extreme sports – ULM, kitesurfing, etc. In fact, his life is an extreme sport!“On the film set, it was difficult for him to come face to face with his ex, Marion Cotillard. Yet Alain Attal affirms it: “Guillaume continued to direct his actress every day by making allowances”. A professionalism that borders on psychorigidity. Each of his scenarios being born from an observation of ill-being, an annoyance, a “depression“according to Marianne. The Little Handkerchiefs ? “My most personal film”, he said in 2010. His biggest hit to date (5.3 million admissions). A work of “introspection“written in one”dazzling” after a hospital stay where no one came to see him. Rock’n’Roll? “I was fed up with this job and the people whoswelled stalking my private life, I was angry“, he said when he left in 2017. It was his ex-girlfriend, and mother of his two children who, finally on the set of Dailybest sums up the complex director’s greatest concern: “Guillaume does not always want to be right; he wants people to think like him.”A state of mind like a comic book bubble!
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