The end of the year rhymes with magic, gifts, and family reunions. But it also marks the birthday of Gérard Depardieu. Indeed, the sacred monster of French cinema celebrates its 74th birthday this Tuesday, December 27. The opportunity to come back to a hilarious anecdote he had told on the set of TPMP in August 2020.
At the time, the actor is the guest of Cyril Hanouna. The host, aware of the anecdotes, each more interesting than the other held by the actor, tries to extract one and not the least from him. Indeed, Gérard Depardieu frequented a lot of politicians during his life and in particular a President of the Republic who had a strange habit. He often called on him to… stop being bored.
A naughty ex-head of state, to the delight of Gérard Depardieu
“Mitterrand is still Machiavelli. I was going there because Monique Lang (wife of Jack Lang, who was government spokesperson at the time, editor’s note) called me and said: ‘Gérard, you have to see the president, he is bored'”he revealed on the set of TPMP. An invitation to talk about the situation in the country? Evoke the great career of the actor? Or to talk about food? Nothing of the sort.
If François Mitterand appealed to Gérard Depardieu, it was to relax him with a completely different subject. “What interested him was to know a bit about all the actresses’ sex stories”had confided the one whose son has radically changed his face to look like his idol Eminem, before continuing: “So I made it up, of course! He enjoyed it! We had a bond, he wasn’t stupid. But in fact, I spent long nights in the apartment at the Élysée.” A habit that has allowed him to go, on a recurring basis, to one of the most prestigious places in the country.
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