Gérard Depardieu is back on the film sets a few weeks after his resounding trial for sexual assault.
After having supported her at the trial, Fanny Ardant turns Gérard Depardieu in the film she wrote, which she is currently making in the Archipelago of Azores (Portugal) and which is called “She looked without seeing anything”.
In its Friday May 2 edition, here is the information but also photos stolen on the set. Decreased during his trial which ended on March 26, Gérard Depardieu appears in good shape on the set started on April 14 and which should end on May 24 according to BFM TV.
However, it is on May 13 that the Paris Criminal Court will render its judgment in the case of alleged sexual assaults against two women during the shooting of a film in 2021. During the trial, the prosecutor requested 18 months in prison suspended and 20,000 euros fine against Gérard Depardieu accused of having attacked two women during the filming of Jean Becker ” “By () wedging them between her legs and (them) touching their buttocks, sex, and chest over (their) clothes”. He may well not attend the pronouncement of the judgment.
“Redial duo”
During this trial, Fanny Ardant, 76, had been one of the few personalities in the cinema community to support the actor at the helm. She assured that she had “never attended a gesture that I would have found shocking” from Gérard Depardieu. “I am a woman myself, I experienced things like that, I swayed slaps, insults. I know that we can say no to Gérard,” she added before kissing her “lifelong friend” leaving the courtroom.
A few weeks later, the “fusional” duo, according to here, began this shooting at 2,500km from Paris in a 100 % Portuguese production with no other French player in the casting.
“The shooting is going very well and we are very satisfied”
According to BFM TV, “no financier in France wanted to follow Gérard Depardieu” and assume to produce a film where he would be on the bill. The film shot by Fanny Ardant is supported by the Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual and Radio and Portuguese television, two public institutions.
When questioned, producer Ana Pinhão Moura assures that “the shooting goes very well and we are very satisfied”.
It remains to be seen whether the film will be broadcast in France.
