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Image: LionsgateDreamworks’ live-action remake of How to Train Your Train Dragon has added an old new face to its cast. Gerard Butler, who voiced the viking chief Stoick the Brave across the animated films, will reprise his role as the remake’s flesh-and-blood version.Will You Click Windows’ New Copilot Button?Per Deadline, getting Butler on board for the remake was an intentional move on part of the creators, which includes trilogy director Dean DeBlois. Adding him gives the movie some extra legitimacy and pays tribute…

On 20 December, during a 135-minute-long interview on French television, dedicated to topics such as the new law on immigration, the future bill on assisted dying, the war in Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas conflict, Emmanuel Macron was asked about Gérard Depardieu. France’s president could have chosen to be cautious and not comment on a case that has divided France. It would probably have been wiser to have remained silent, but Macron doesn’t do caution; he speaks his mind.“You will never see me taking part in a manhunt,”…

Nearly 60 French actors and other prominent figures have denounced the “lynching” of disgraced film legend Gérard Depardieu, who is charged with rape and is facing other sexual assault claims.An open letter signed by British actor Charlotte Rampling, former French first lady and singer Carla Bruni, and Depardieu’s former partner, actor Carole Bouquet, claims the star is the victim of a “torrent of hatred”.“Gérard Depardieu is probably the greatest of all actors,” added the letter published in French newspaper Le Figaro on…

Nearly 60 actors and public figures, including British actress Charlotte Rampling and former French first lady Carla Bruni, have signed an open letter claiming that French actor Gerard Depardieu is the victim of a “torrent of hatred.” Depardieu, who was previously charged with rape in 2021, is currently facing a new sexual assault allegation after a French actress, Hélène Darras, filed a police complaint claiming he groped her in 2007. Last week, French President Emmanuel Macron defended the actor in an interview,…

French President Emmanuel Macron said the actor Gérard Depardieu — who’s faced an array of sexual assault allegations over the past few years — “makes France proud.” According to the The New York Times, Macron appeared to defend Depardieu during a recent interview on French TV. The president said he was a “big admirer” of the “great actor,” and reiterated that anyone accused of something was innocent until proven otherwise: “You will never see me participate in a manhunt,” Macron said. Macron’s comments came…

French President Emmanuel Macron has said film icon Gérard Depardieu, accused of rape, has become the target of a “manhunt”, as the actor faces fresh scrutiny over sexist comments.“You will never see me participate in a manhunt,” Macron told the France 5 broadcaster when asked about possibly stripping the actor of a state award. “I hate that kind of thing,” he said, adding that “you don’t strip someone of a Legion of Honour based on a report”.The award, the most prestigious the government can award and which Depardieu…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeA Spanish journalist and author has filed a criminal complaint against Gérard Depardieu for allegedly raping her during an interview nearly three decades ago in Paris.Ruth Baza, 51, filed the complaint with Spain’s national police last week for the alleged rape, becoming one of more than a dozen women who have accused the French actor of sexual abuse.Baza has alleged that she was 23…

A Spanish journalist and author has filed a criminal complaint in Spain against Gérard Depardieu, claiming that the film star raped her nearly 30 years ago in Paris.Ruth Baza, 51, told AFP she filed the complaint with Spanish police on Thursday, saying the alleged rape happened when she interviewed the actor in Paris on 12 October 1995, for the magazine Cinemania.The complaint was first reported by the Barcelona-based newspaper La Vanguardia.Baza, who was 23 at the time while Depardieu was 46, spoke of “an intrusion…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAn investigation has been opened following the reported suicide of a French actor who made sexual assault allegations against Gérard Depardieu.The Paris prosecutor’s office said 60-year-old Emmanuelle Debever, who acted with Depardieu, 74, in the 1983 film Danton, died after being rushed to hospital on 7 December, one week after leaving a “worrying” note for her partner.It was reported…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAn actor who claimed Gérard Depardieu slid his hand up her skirt during filming has reportedly died by suicide on the same day a documentary on sexual assault allegations against the French megastar was broadcast.Emmanuelle Debever, a promising young talent in French cinema in the 1980s who later pulled back from the limelight, acted with Depardieu, 74, in the 1983 film Danton.In June…