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There we were, three days before the Césars [awards ceremony]. But Gérard Depardieu's mind was elsewhere. Since his return from America, he has had a personal crisis whose violence took him by surprise. He will speak of it repeatedly during our interview.
But, as he often says it, a zebra doesn't change its stripes. Even agitated by internal torment, Gérard Depardieu still exhibits a striking vitality, an appetite for meetings and movies. Even though he doesn't dare say too much, he dreams of success, on the world scale, that he has had in France. His altruism, his heat, his power of seduction allows him to have projects today with Dustin Hoffman, Satyajit Ray, Kenneth Branagh, Peter Weir or Ridley Scott, just as he had some yesterday with Blier, Duras, Deneuve, Veber or Pialat. And the new don't exclude the old, on the contrary. Gérard Depardieu can pile up friendships and movies, he has the heart and the health necessary for that. But even when the machinery works overtime, is it sufficient?
He often says that he is not that an actor and this is not idle talk. He films a lot, and yet he spends less time acting than meeting people, setting up movies, with or without him in them, purchasing films to take to France, making wine, selling it, etc. It makes your head spin.
It was maybe the thousandth interview of his career. And yet, he is still reluctant to say "me", he often replaces it by the "you" or "one"... His speech, his preoccupations are nothing like those of the other actors, of the other stars. He is always, implacably, a man apart...
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