Gerard Depardieu ends film career!

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PARIS (Reuters) - Actor Gerard Depardieu is ending his film career, a newspaper quoted the popular Frenchman as saying on Sunday.

"I have nothing to lose. I have made 170 films. I have nothing left to prove. I am not going to hang on like an idiot," Depardieu, one of France's best known actors at home and abroad, was quoted as saying by Le Parisien Dimanche newspaper.

"I'm in the process of stopping filming," said the portly star of films such as "Cyrano de Bergerac," "Green Card" and "Jean de Florette."

Depardieu, 56, made the comments on the set of the upcoming French film "Michou d'Auber." He would also star in an Asterix film to be made next year, the paper said.

gear (gear), Sunday, 30 October 2005 23:14 (eighteen years ago) link

:(

phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 30 October 2005 23:16 (eighteen years ago) link

He's holding out for Green Card II: The Legend of Andie's Acting Talent gold.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 30 October 2005 23:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Ah it's a pity tho, I always thought he was fun.

Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Sunday, 30 October 2005 23:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Well at least he's making sure to end it on a high note.

Øystein (Øystein), Monday, 31 October 2005 00:00 (eighteen years ago) link

If he's going to concentrate on his vineyard this is excellent news.

Matt (Matt), Monday, 31 October 2005 01:09 (eighteen years ago) link

He's going to retire to keep his dignity, as soon as he plays Obelix.

I see.

No wait, I don't.

Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 31 October 2005 03:26 (eighteen years ago) link

It's called "Contractual Obligation"

mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 31 October 2005 10:04 (eighteen years ago) link

will he be Obelix?

mentalist (mentalist), Monday, 31 October 2005 10:06 (eighteen years ago) link

It's called "Contractual Obelix"

mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 31 October 2005 10:07 (eighteen years ago) link

they could throw a wig on Gary Oldman, for Asterix

mentalist (mentalist), Monday, 31 October 2005 10:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Gary Coleman, surely.

scotstvo (scotstvo), Monday, 31 October 2005 11:54 (eighteen years ago) link

THE ROLLING MENHIRS

http://img496.imageshack.us/img496/1523/rolling24sn.jpg

ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Monday, 31 October 2005 12:35 (eighteen years ago) link

how is his son(guillame?) doing? a few years ago I heard he broke his neck or something like that.

Lovelace (Lovelace), Monday, 31 October 2005 13:24 (eighteen years ago) link

I believe he's played Obelix in a couple of Asterix movies already. So, unless they killed the big dude, and now are bringing back his evil twin, I'm pretty confident he's got the same role.

Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 31 October 2005 13:44 (eighteen years ago) link

said the portly star

Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 31 October 2005 17:49 (eighteen years ago) link

And...

Knights of Manhattan (2006) (announced) .... Bill Cannon
Astérix aux jeux olympiques (2007) (pre-production) .... Obélix
Michou d'Auber (2006) (filming)
Quand j'étais chanteur (2006) (post-production)
Olé (2005) (post-production) .... François Veber
Amici miei '400 (2005) (post-production)
Last Holiday (2006) (completed)

James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 31 October 2005 17:59 (eighteen years ago) link

going back to raping, is he?

kyle (akmonday), Monday, 31 October 2005 20:41 (eighteen years ago) link

eh?

Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link

All the stories I saw made no reference to any films pre-Jean de Florette. It's funny how actors who stay around long enough have their best work vanish from the collective memory.

Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:22 (eighteen years ago) link

four months pass...
best. career. ever.

amateurist0, Friday, 17 March 2006 18:14 (eighteen years ago) link

i need to rewatch Les Valseuses but im inclined to agree!

Yawn (Wintermute), Friday, 17 March 2006 18:45 (eighteen years ago) link

"my father the hero" was great!!

POOP BITCH (Mandee), Friday, 17 March 2006 18:56 (eighteen years ago) link

http://joeyy.free.fr/AFFICHES-FILMS/depardieu_affiche_bogus.gif

He was in the WORST MOVIE I have ever seen!

Abbott (Abbott), Friday, 17 March 2006 19:09 (eighteen years ago) link

five years pass...

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110817/world/french-star-depardieu-relieves-himself-in-plane-cabin.380638

French film actor Gerard Depardieu was caught short on a Paris to Dublin flight and chose not to bother going to the toilet before relieving himself, airline CityJet told AFP.

"I will only confirm that he, in effect, urinated in the plane," a spokeswoman for the Air France-KLM subsidiary said, confirming a report on Europe 1 radio, which interviewed a passenger who witnessed the incident.

According to the passenger, who was not named, the 62-year-old was visibly inebriated and tried to stand up before take-off, when passengers are asked to wear seatbelts, declaring: "I want to piss, I want to piss."

When a stewardess asked him to sit and wait 15 minutes until the jet took off and reached cruising altitude, he said he could not wait. "And there and then he stood up and did it on the floor," she told the French broadcaster.

"We could see he had been drinking. The stewardess was dumbfounded," she added. "No-one said anything. It all happened with courtesy. Mr Depardieu sat back down and the plane returned to the parking area to be cleaned."

The spokeswoman said the incident had taken place on Tuesday evening on board flight AF5010. She did not say whether the company intended to take further action against the popular French star.

According to a Paris Airports website, the Dublin route is served by an Avro RJ-85, a regional jet that can carry up to 111 passengers and is routinely equipped with onboard toilets both fore and aft.

Depardieu is perhaps the best known face in French cinema, having appeared in almost 200 films, and is known abroad as the star of the 1990 literary epic Cyrano de Bergerac and the US romantic comedy Green Card.

He is also a winemaker and in 1990 was convicted of drunk driving.

Piss on a plane!

LocalGarda, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 11:15 (twelve years ago) link

In Potiche Depardieu looked as if he had swallowed a refrigerator; perhaps these days he's too fat to get into an airplane toilet?

Ivana Boob-Reduction (j.lu), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 16:41 (twelve years ago) link

It all happened with courtesy
It all happened with courtesy
It all happened with courtesy
It all happened with courtesy
It all happened with courtesy

lex pretend, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 16:42 (twelve years ago) link

Dude, just wait till Ireland to get drunk, ffs.

Cuius regio, eius radicchio (Michael White), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 16:46 (twelve years ago) link

He is also a winemaker and in 1990 was convicted of drunk driving.
He is also a winemaker and in 1990 was convicted of drunk driving.
He is also a winemaker and in 1990 was convicted of drunk driving.
He is also a winemaker and in 1990 was convicted of drunk driving.
He is also a winemaker and in 1990 was convicted of drunk driving.

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 16:51 (twelve years ago) link

I was in the pub the other week and a man tried to tell a joke about Gerard Depardieu marrying Whoopi Goldberg making her Whoopi Depardieu - he had to mispronounce it as "Doo-pee-doo" so we would get it. Horribly formed.

^^^ this (onimo), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 16:53 (twelve years ago) link

Source: Gerard Depardieu urinates on plane

ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link

Witness: Depardieu appeared inebriated

ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link

He is also a urinemaker

Cuius regio, eius radicchio (Michael White), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link

He was wandering around CalArts on class registration day a year or so ago. I still do not know why he was there. I say "wandering", but he was mostly sat in a chair resting on a cane. Dude is faaaaaat

A41 (admrl), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 18:07 (twelve years ago) link

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The Freewheelin' Rebecca Black (Eazy), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link

three weeks pass...

He still makes a lot of swill, but nevertheless usually elevates it.

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/my-afternoons-with-margueritte/5751

(There's a peeing scene in this one, but he observes rather than initiates it.)

incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 15:26 (twelve years ago) link

i need to rewatch Les Valseuses but im inclined to agree!

― Yawn (Wintermute), Friday, 17 March 2006 18:45 (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this movie is utterly abhorrent

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 16:42 (twelve years ago) link

http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=669127>1=28103

nostormo, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link

one year passes...

fuck this guy

goole, Monday, 7 January 2013 18:33 (eleven years ago) link

gerard-depardieu-video-pee-urine-talk-show-interview-conversation-peeing-giggling-laughing-urinating

thomp ynchon (some dude), Monday, 7 January 2013 18:34 (eleven years ago) link

man, Underworld fell off

Solange Knowles is my hero (DJP), Monday, 7 January 2013 18:34 (eleven years ago) link

boor say hi to me

buzza, Monday, 7 January 2013 18:39 (eleven years ago) link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20927274

goole, Monday, 7 January 2013 18:39 (eleven years ago) link

Waving the new document, he was welcomed to Saransk by women wearing national costumes and served blini - traditional pancakes. He was also presented with a pair of felt boots and two kittens.

"I am very happy, it's very beautiful here, beautiful and soulful people live here," Interfax quoted him as saying. He then unhinged his jaw and swallowed both kittens whole.

Solange Knowles is my hero (DJP), Monday, 7 January 2013 18:41 (eleven years ago) link

lol buzza

If I was a carpenter, and you were a douchebag (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 7 January 2013 18:41 (eleven years ago) link

france should bar him from entering the country

iatee, Monday, 7 January 2013 18:41 (eleven years ago) link

"I am very happy, it's very beautiful here, and the people are delicious, especially wrapped in prosciutto and filled with Brie," Interfax quoted him as saying.

the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 January 2013 18:42 (eleven years ago) link

Putin kissed Depardieu "like a kitten"

Solange Knowles is my hero (DJP), Monday, 7 January 2013 18:43 (eleven years ago) link

flying penis attacks gary kasparov

christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 7 January 2013 18:48 (eleven years ago) link

u handsome devil

lag∞n, Monday, 7 January 2013 20:49 (eleven years ago) link

tsk tsk

http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsD/4555-7416.gif

saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 January 2013 21:12 (eleven years ago) link

he is now a gnome

Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Monday, 7 January 2013 21:13 (eleven years ago) link

lag∞n's pic is some fancy hobbit shit

Solange Knowles is my hero (DJP), Monday, 7 January 2013 21:14 (eleven years ago) link

I wish him the best of luck in libertarian paradise russia

mh, Monday, 7 January 2013 21:18 (eleven years ago) link

one year passes...

https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/news/gerard-depardieu-says-drinks-14-bottles-wine-day-015500058-us-weekly.html

"I killed two lions once and I understand why the lion is the king of the jungle. [It was] in legitimate self defense," he's quoted saying. "Imagine you're driving and your engine breaks down. You got out, and in your way are these animals. So you shoot, just to scare them. They don't move. I wasn't there for hunting. I was in Africa for Africa."

You and Dad's Army? (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 18 September 2014 20:12 (nine years ago) link

one month passes...

btw that is essentially the first big scene of his film career and it's rather amazing

this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 19 October 2014 12:58 (nine years ago) link

Huge talent.

Thus We Frustrate Kid Charlemagne (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 October 2014 13:04 (nine years ago) link

That's absolutely riveting. His face is fantastic.

Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Sunday, 19 October 2014 20:55 (nine years ago) link

Just finally watched clip, never saw that one. Wow. Did not know Gerard and Jeanne had made a movie together before that other one- Les Valseurs? And the other woman is- Lucia Bosè? *holds breath, sighs*

Thus We Frustrate Kid Charlemagne (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 October 2014 21:09 (nine years ago) link

one month passes...

anyone ever seen this, which was Beineix's crash after Diva?

http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/the-moon-in-the-gutter

it's on YT, sans Eng titles

things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:07 (nine years ago) link

one year passes...

he is hilarious in Serge Gainsbourg's 1976 film starring Birkin & Dallesandro, a pansexual riding a white horse and warning a guy that he's killed people with his big fucking dick.

http://36.media.tumblr.com/7efbc07d131ac2c7a70572895b505fd3/tumblr_mhak3fsOOT1qmemvwo1_500.jpg

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 February 2016 21:40 (eight years ago) link

when i was in france they had some /really/ old depardieu film on which was basically a meatballs-type thing set in a summer camp. not his finest hour.

wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 4 February 2016 22:59 (eight years ago) link

"they had" -- i mean "they had on TV."

wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 4 February 2016 23:00 (eight years ago) link

Was it Get Out Your Handkerchiefs?

"Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 4 February 2016 23:55 (eight years ago) link

i guess it was. so, not necessarily very "meatballs" at all!

wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 5 February 2016 04:20 (eight years ago) link

Ha! Your post got me thinking about that one again, which led me to remember that GD's costar Patrick Dewaere made another weird summer camp film a few years earlier called The Right Way To Walk, wherein he plays a macho camp counselor who bullies a co-worker he discovers is a transvestite. I imagine there's a whole sub-genre of this stuff.

"Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 5 February 2016 04:41 (eight years ago) link

one year passes...

I read Gérard Depardieu's autobiography and can assure you it doesn't disappoint. pic.twitter.com/cFqKS88LGM

— Nick Newman (@Nick_Newman) September 28, 2017

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 September 2017 21:20 (six years ago) link


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