Asterix and Obelix: The Middle Kingdom, directed by Guillaume Canet, will be released in cinemas on February 1, 2023. For the occasion, Vincent Cassel, who will play the role of Jules César, confided in our colleagues from Allociné. “For me, from what I’ve seen, I think that this Asterix and Obelix will come to tickle very closely, if not more, the Asterix of Chabat, which for me was for the moment the best that had been done. I’m very happy to have done this thing. And yet at the base I didn’t necessarily see myself in Asterix and Obelix. But then when Guillaume Canet called me and said: ‘Do you want to do Jules César? I said to myself “Yes, in fact. Absolutely!“, says the actor.
“I’m quite happy to have done Julius Caesar, I don’t know why. It is the image, the physical. Because Julius Caesar is like that, he is very arrogant with his big nose and everything. But he has frog legs, remember? And in fact, it’s one of the first things I did when I arrived. Because I have a little frog legs too, it’s my morphology. And they were there they wanted to hide me. I said “No! We’re pulling up the skirt!” So much so that Bun-Hay Mean who also works in the film, with me, called me “Caesar Skirt”. He’s a comic book character, but I had a lot of fun playing him.“, relates the father of Deva Cassel.
If Monica Bellucci’s ex takes on the features of a comic book character, it’s the first time in the world ofAsterix and Obelix that a movie was made without being based on an existing comic book. In addition to the five-star cast of Guilluame Canet’s feature film, another surprise awaits fans of the two irreducible Gauls: a comic strip. Indeed, a new album, drawn by Fabrice Tarrin and written by Olivier Gay, and taken from the script of the film, will see the light of day one week after the release of the film in theaters. (February 8). The most curious can discover the cover that was unveiled in the September 28 edition of Le Figaro.
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