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Gerard Depardieu Doesn't Like DSK: "He's Very French. Arrogant, Smug"
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Jen Chung
Published Mar 15, 2012
Modified Mar 15, 2012
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Gerard Depardieu, acclaimed actor and noted plane pisser, is discussing his upcoming film based on infamous pussyhound Dominique Strauss-Kahn. And Gerard is getting pretty real: "I don't like him, so I'll do it. He's not lovable. I think he's a bit like all the French, a bit arrogant. I don't much like the French anyway ... He's very French. Arrogant, smug."
Abel Ferrara plans on directing the film based on his own script, with Depardieu as a DSK-like character and Isabelle Adjani as the long-suffering wife. In his interview with Swiss TV station RTS, Depardieu also criticized, "It's the way he walks, with one hand in his pocket. We can all have filthy thoughts, and it's well known that these guys with huge power, money, the IMF or top judicial officials can be like that."
Depardieu is an outspoken supporter of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who Strauss-Kahn was potentially going to challenge before his arrest in New York.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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