Sophia Michaels
Gérard Depardieu has worked with a litany of actors, including Academy Award-winning French actor Juliette Binoche. At one point in her career, she was France’s highest-paid female actor,but Depardieu seemingly had no admiration for her when he bashed her in a 2010 interview. He told Austrian magazine Profil (via The Guardian) of Binoche, “Please can you explain to me what the secret of this actress is meant to be?” He added, “I would really like to know why she has been so esteemed for so many years. She has nothing. Absolutely nothing!”
Gérard Depardieu has worked with a litany of actors, including Academy Award-winning French actor Juliette Binoche. At one point in her career, she was France’s highest-paid female actor,but Depardieu seemingly had no admiration for her when he bashed her in a 2010 interview. He told Austrian magazine Profil (via The Guardian) of Binoche, “Please can you explain to me what the secret of this actress is meant to be?” He added, “I would really like to know why she has been so esteemed for so many years. She has nothing. Absolutely nothing!”
In response to the interview, Binoche fired back at Depardieu in a chat with the BBC. She said, “Disappointing wouldn’t be the right word. I’m surprised, I have to say, because I don’t know him and I don’t know what I did to him.” Binoche wondered if he simply resented the acclaim she’d gotten for her performance in 2010’s “Certified Copy”
Binoche said months after the interview that she and Depardieu exchanged words about what he said. She told The Guardian that he didn’t exactly apologize, attributing his words to his feelings toward directors. But Binoche sensed there was more to it. She said, “I think he was feeling jealous because I’d just received the award in Cannes. He was hurt because I had made him deal with too many things.” Evidently, they were able to put their drama aside for their chosen craft: In 2017, they both appeared in Claire Denis’ film “Let the Sunshine In.”
