The 74-year-old actor “has decided not to accept any project for the moment in the current context”, Bertrand de Labbey told AFP on Monday. Gérard Depardieu was notably to lend his voice to the next animated film by Michel Hazanavicius.
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Faced with the accusations to which he is the subject, and for which he proclaims his innocence in the columns of Figaro, Gérard Depardieu withdraws from all artistic activity. He “does not accept any project”starting with the lending of his voice to one of the characters in the next animated film by Michel Hazanavicius, in the “context” of accusations of rape and sexual assault, we learned Monday October 2 from his agent. “He has decided not to accept any project for the moment in the current context”Bertrand de Labbey told AFP.
At first and “by mutual agreement, Gérard Depardieu and Michel Hazanavicius have decided to renounce (the) participation (by Gérard Depardieu, editor’s note) pour (the) next film” from the director, he added, confirming information from the daily The Parisian. The actor was to lend his voice to The Most Valuable of Goodswhich tells the story of a couple of Polish lumberjacks who, during the Second World War, rescue a baby who fell from a train taking deportees to the Auschwitz camp. “Only tests had been carried out”, specifies Bertrand de Labbey.
Faced with the storm, the counterattack
The actor has been indicted since 2020 for “rape” And “sexual assault” on the actress Charlotte Arnould, who denounced two rapes at the star’s Parisian home at the end of August 2018. In the summer of 2020, she obtained that the investigation, first closed by the Paris prosecutor’s office in June 2019, be entrusted to an investigating judge.
In April, Médiapart revealed the testimonies of 13 women accusing Gérard Depardieu of sexual violence. The Paris prosecutor’s office indicated at the time of these revelations that it had not “received no new complaints to date”. The prosecution also specified that the investigation opened in July 2020 following the actress’ complaint was continuing.
In an open letter published on Sunday, the actor refuted the accusations against him, denouncing a “lynching” orchestrated by the “media court” and ensuring to be “neither rapist nor predator”. “Never, ever, have I abused a woman,” he writes.