Gerard Depardieu “no longer takes any project in the current context”: the actor leaves the film of Michel Hazanavicius

Gerard Depardieu, announced in the voice casting of the first animated film by French director Michel Hazanavicius, will finally be replaced.

Parisian In fact, it is revealed that the actress is no longer in the casting of Michel Hazanavicius’s film “The Most Valuable Commodity”. The animated feature film is set during World War II and tells the story of a couple of Polish forest hunters who take in a child after he is thrown from a deportee train sent to a concentration camp. ‘Auschwitz. The actor was supposed to voice the character of the woodcutter, but the latter had only done auditions so far.

Jean-Louis Trinignan recorded the narrator’s voice before his death on June 17. To this day, Dominique Blanc and Dennis Podalides still appear in the voice cast. Michel Hazanavicius made the point when announcing his feature film BFMTV, That it was a film with very little dialogue. The release date has not been announced yet.

Gerard Depardieu “no longer accepts any project in its current context”.

Following a complaint by actress Charlotte Arnold, accused of “rape and sexual assault” since December 2020, and by 15 other women accused of sexual assault, the 74-year-old actor recently published an open letter to deny the allegations against him.

The actor’s agent told AFP that the decision to withdraw from “The Most Valuable Commodity” was made by mutual consent and that Gerard Depardieu “is no longer taking on any projects in the current context”.

Last May, Gerard Depardieu was already excluded from promoting Slony Sow’s film, Umami. Therefore, the actor decided not to shoot again, waiting for the verdict of the court.