About 60 French artists joined the defenders of the actor Gérard Depardieu, as they denounced, in an article published the day before yesterday evening, what they described as a “lynching” to which the star was subjected, which has become a political controversy and the focus of a widespread media uproar, after a television station broadcast Recently, a television documentary about him included comments of an inappropriate nature attributed to him.
Among the signatories to the article published by Le Figaro newspaper were director Bertrand Blier, actresses Nathalie Baye, Carole Bouquet and Charlotte Rampling, actors Jacques Weber, Pierre Richard and Gérard Darmon, and singers Roberto Alagna, Carla Bruni, Ariel Dombal and Jacques Dutron.
They described Depardieu as “perhaps the greatest of actors, and the last of cinema’s greats.” They stressed that they can no longer be “silent about the (lynching) to which he is subjected, and the torrent of hatred that is pouring down on him, which is characterized by extremism and confusion of matters, without taking into account the presumption of innocence, which would have applied to him like any other person, had he not been a giant of cinema.”
