Testifying in a criminal trial over incidents that occurred during the 2021 production of Les Volets Verts, French actor Gerard Depardieu on Wednesday told a court that “Sexual assault is something more serious than” grabbing a woman’s derriere… “But a hand on someone’s buttocks, it’s not… (that),” when asked about allegations by one of the two plaintiffs that he had groped her, Reuters reports, adding that later Depardieu also said he didn’t know what “sexual assault” meant.
Then Depardieu said he “did not touch her buttocks, I did not touch her breasts, I did none of that.”
Huh, sounds awfully familiar. Not just that a 76 year old lion of French cinema worth over $200 million, probably about 130 lbs overweight feels entitled to do whatever he wants to whatever woman crosses his path and has a long history of being accused of such, including from a woman who later committed suicide. It’s the whole “I didn’t do it, but even if I did it’s not a crime” that translates all too well to American audiences, particularly the ones who follow politics these days.
No way Depardieu’s a fan of Marine Le Pen. That’d be just too goddamned on the nose.