Retirement Home 2: What Happened to Gerard Depardieu’s Character That Wasn’t in Kev Adams’ Sequel?

Retirement Home 2: What Happened to Gerard Depardieu’s Character That Wasn’t in Kev Adams’ Sequel?

Two years after the first part, which attracted more than 2 million curious people to the cinemas, the nursing home returns with the second opus! This time, Thomas Gilles is replaced by Claude Zid Jr. in the director’s chair. One thing does not change, Kev Adams still plays the main role of the saga, the friendly and clumsy Milan.

When Lino Vartan’s home – which welcomes young orphans and the elderly – has to close for health reasons, Milan has no choice but to respond to an invitation from a nursing home in the south that welcomes them for the summer. Everyone gets on the Albany bus.

Then children and adults will discover the Bel Azur Club, an idyllic villa by the sea: a dream! God’s gift to these orphaned children who have never had a vacation… But heaven turns into hell because the old and new old people hate each other! A war of heads has been declared!

On the casting side, Daniel Prévost, Lillian Rovere, Marte Villalonga, Firmin Richard and even Jean-Luc Bidaud return to give Kev Adams a hard time. In addition, some newcomers will also bring him trouble: Jean Reno, Amanda Leary, Chantal Ladesu, Enrico Macias and Michel Jonas. Mylène Demongeot, unfortunately, died in December 2022, logically will not be in the credits.

What happened to Depardieu’s character?

Gerard Depardieu, who is in legal trouble over rape and sexual assault allegations, will also not be in the sequel. However, his troubles with the law have nothing to do with his absence. Indeed, the character played by the actor, ex-boxer Lino, died in the first film after mentoring Milan; He especially taught him the basics of boxing. As Nursing Home 2 begins, archival images evoke Lino’s fate to help the audience contextualize the story.

he asked BFM TV During the recent Alpe d’Huez festival, Kev Adams admitted that the production was thinking about removing the scene where Gerard Depardieu appears. It ended up being left in the finale for viewers who hadn’t seen the first episode. “For me, he is not part of this adventure at all. Sometimes it is a bit disturbing, even embarrassing to talk about this controversy.“, the 32-year-old actor justified himself.

“When I see him behaving like a pig in ‘Complement d’investigation’, I find it disgusting, unacceptable. It’s time for this behavior to stop on set and be punished.”added Kev Adams, referring to the France 2 program last December, in which we heard Depardieu make vile and misogynistic remarks.

Nursing Home 2 opens in theaters on February 14. Will it have the same success as the first part? Answer in a few weeks!

Source: Allocine

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