Esther Zuckerman

That's my thing as well.

There have truly just been decades of stories about Gerard Depardieu.

And even in this moment, in 1990, where it's like Cyrano's getting him in a Best Actor nomination, he's starring in Green Card, he's doing his American press, like his first real run of like, are we ready for France's biggest movie star?

He says, like, seven insanely objectionable things in interviews that were litigated for weeks in the press in a way that, like, feels like our modern discourse cycle.

Back then, people would kind of move on from shit.

Right.

The tone is very often like, you know,

Who knows if these things are true?

And even if they are true, such things happen.

Boys will be boys.

Right.

But what we cannot deny is that Girard gave us 50 years of film history.

Yeah.

And how dare you threaten to erase that?

Like, the French's response...

But it's basically only this current younger generation of French filmmakers and actors who are actually pushing back on the thing.

And even so have experienced insane career repercussions.

But yeah, no, their attitude is just like,

It felt like what they saw was, oh, so what?

People say a story about Kevin Spacey and now Kevin Spacey movies no longer exist.