Gérard Depardieu, implicated in several cases of sexual violence, is filming in Portugal under the direction of his friend actress Fanny Ardant, we learned on Friday from the production. An actress who has filed a complaint against him is unworthy.
Gérard Depardieu will know on May 13 the decision of the Paris Criminal Court, which judged him in March for sexual assaults which he disputes and which would have been committed on the set of “green shutters” (2022). Eighteen months suspended prison sentence was required against him.
The shooting in which the former sacred monster of French cinema participates, aged 76, began in April on the island of Sao Miguel, the largest in the Azores archipelago, and has to end next week, producer Ana Pinhao Moura told AFP.
“It is a 100% Portuguese production,” she explained: “A love story around two women who are on a mysterious island”.
Fanny Ardant, who signs the scenario and the realization, had testified in favor of Gérard Depardieu during his trial in the case of “green shutters”.
“We can say no to Gérard”
“I am a woman myself, I experienced things like that, I swung slaps, insults. I know that we can say no to Gérard,” said the actress, defending her “lifelong friend”.
-In the film she directed, Gérard Depardieu embodies “the island’s magician, a mysterious figure that makes the link between the other characters,” said Ana Pinhao Moura.
The actor has also been charged since December 2020 after the rape complaint filed by the actress Charlotte Arnould, almost fifty years younger. The actor also rejects these accusations there.
On Instagram, the actress challenged Fanny Ardant, castigating “the indecency of (sound) choice” to entrust a role to Gérard Depardieu.
“A trial has just passed, what does this represent for you and how much do you feel above all this? The danger on the shootings is real,” wrote Charlotte Arnould, deploring “a layer of denial”.
“The idea is not to condemn a man for life but already, so that he is rehabilitated in his own environment, should he do what is necessary … recognize the crimes and crimes he committed throughout his life. I believe Fanny that it was not really good timing,” she added.
This article was published automatically. Sources: ATS / AFP
