Esther Zuckerman

They cannot do that to our culture.

And they get so defensive.

But he was given like such cultural indulgence, right?

That you're like, this guy is just like.

Yes.

Bad in every direction.

And also like my uncle who's an actor in France is just like, yeah, it's like one of the open secrets that Gerard has used in earpiece for like 25 years.

Even when he's doing like stage, when he's doing TV, when he's doing film, like he's a lazy piece of shit and he doesn't learn his lines.

That is me quoting an angry working actor in France at like how much they let Depardieu get away with.

And basically would say like he shows up and he doesn't know what the character is and the audience applauds.

Like he just became so deeply tied reputationally to the idea of French cinema.

Like this is our living legend and nothing he could do would distort

The sort of enormity of all of it.

This has just made so many fucking movies.

I remember reading an Asterix book in like the early 90s.

And in the front page, they had a caricature of Gerard Depardieu.

Right.

As Obelix.

And I was like, why'd they make it Depardieu?

And my mom was like, because they just know he's going to play him in a movie at some point.