Publish date. 20-02-2010   Number of images. 5 Category. Movies

Depardieu dismisses controversy over Dumas role

French actor Gérard Depardieu, seen at the Berlin Film Festival on Friday, plays French author Alexandre Dumas in the film L'Autre Dumas. ...

Gérard Depardieu, one of the greatest icons of French cinema, has dismissed claims that he has been miscast as mixed-race author Alexandre Dumas in Safy Nebbou’s big-budget production L’Autre Duma

Full View  Gérard Depardieu, one of the greatest icons of French cinema, has dismissed claims that he has been miscast as mixed-race author Alexandre Dumas in Safy Nebbou’s big-budget production L’Autre Dumas / The Other Dumas. In Depardieu’s words at the Berlin Film Festival on Friday, those arguments are "ridiculous" and "unnecessary," while the issue itself is "not interesting" and "not a problem." A number of reviewers had complained that Depardieu was "too white" for the role....

Blacked up? French movie legend Gerald Depardieu as the famed Frech author in 'The Other Dumas' Yet the producers of 'L'Autre Dumas' (The Other Dumas), which opened in Paris last week, seem to think

Full View  Blacked up? French movie legend Gerald Depardieu as the famed Frech author in 'The Other Dumas' Yet the producers of 'L'Autre Dumas' (The Other Dumas), which opened in Paris last week, seem to think a big-name white actor would attract more viewers than a black actor.Patrick Lozes, President of the Council of Black Associations of France, branded the move 'extremely shocking and insulting', saying that Dumas's African heritage was deliberately being ignored for commercial reasons....

Gérard Depardieu, one of the greatest icons of French cinema, has dismissed claims that he has been miscast as mixed-race author Alexandre Dumas in Safy Nebbou’s big-budget production L’Autre Duma

Full View  Gérard Depardieu, one of the greatest icons of French cinema, has dismissed claims that he has been miscast as mixed-race author Alexandre Dumas in Safy Nebbou’s big-budget production L’Autre Dumas / The Other Dumas. In Depardieu’s words at the Berlin Film Festival on Friday, those arguments are "ridiculous" and "unnecessary," while the issue itself is "not interesting" and "not a problem." A number of reviewers had complained that Depardieu was "too white" for the role....


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