Esther Zuckerman

This movie is trying to present Gerard Depardieu as like the Walt Disney version of the beast, who's not actually that bad of a guy, but obviously has this kind of like rough, oafish personality.

And then you're just like...

You know, it's really close to like just we took all the bad things out of Gerard Depardieu and left the baseline.

Well, yes, but also... I think times changed for Gerard Depardieu.

This was the real project.

This was the... Do we get... How do we make Americans get Depardieu?

That was just a huge crossover.

But, like, here's this guy who's in his third decade of being a movie star in France.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And had worked with Bertolucci, had sort of like touched the membrane of Hollywood without fully crossing over.

Yeah.

And in the 90s, there was this push of like, are you ready to meet France's Robert De Niro?

I've got that baguette for you.

And that's where De Niro said, you know, you should try being me.

I wish there was a French Fockers trilogy with Depardieu.

My mother is French.

Yes.

Yes.

A lot of that.