We “don’t erase Gérard Depardieu”. On December 26, 2023, Carla Bruni, Pierre Richard, Victoria Abril, and even Nathalie Baye, signed a column published on the website of the Figaro to support the sacred monster of French cinema. The latter, indicted since 2020 for rape and sexual assault. And strongly criticized since the broadcast of Further investigation which was dedicated to him on December 7, in which we see and hear the actor making obscene remarks towards women. To support him in this situation, many personalities wanted to denounce the “lynching that befell him”.
“Gérard Depardieu is probably the greatest of actors. The last sacred monster of cinema”write the signatories in particular before continuing: “We can no longer remain silent in the face of the torrent of hatred which pours down on his person, without nuance, in the most complete amalgam and in defiance of a presumption of innocence from which he would have benefited, like everyone else, ‘he was not the giant of cinema that he is’. Nathalie Bayeone of the signatories of the platform, explained her choice to BFMTV this Tuesday, December 26.
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Gérard Depardieu “not the man we describe” according to Nathalie Baye
Laura Smet’s mother has already shown her support for Gérard Depardieu
and did not hesitate to reiterate it a few hours ago without forgetting to give the reasons. “I know him extremely well. My first professional engagement was with him, it was a very long time ago, we were very young. He is someone in whom I have great confidence”she initially assures our colleagues.
For her, Gérard Depardieu East “a wonderful actor” And “he’s not at all the monstrous man described in the shitty press, that’s not it at all.” “That’s it, there’s nothing else to say. It’s a kind of dirty laundry that makes journalists earn money but I know he’s not the man at all that we describe”she adds, annoyed before recognizing that he can sometimes “say bad words like a lot of guys”but this does not mean that he is the man described by a “monstrous manner”.
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