French actor alleged to have struck a car driver in the face after collision in the sixth arrondissement of Paris on Wednesday
Gérard Depardieu has been accused of assault after an altercation following a traffic accident in Paris on Wednesday.
The incident occurred after Depardieu's scooter collided with a motorist's car in the sixth arrondissement. The driver of the car claims a heated argument culminated in the French actor punching him in the face. The motorist filed his complaint at the prosecutor's office on Thursday. Depardieu is yet to comment.
The star, known internationally for his role in Green Card, his Oscar-nominated turn in Cyrano de Bergerac and a long-term stint as greedy Gaul Obelix in the Asterix movies, made headlines last year over reports that he was ejected from a flight for urinating in the aisle. Depardieu's Asterix co-star, Édouard Baer â€" who was on the flight â€" said that Depardieu had been barred from going to the toilet shortly before take-off. "He couldn't wait, so I found this solution," Baer told Europe 1 radio. "I had a little Evian bottle with me, only it was too small so it overflowed. He wanted to clear it up, but the hostess wouldn't let him." Depardieu and Baer later made light of the incident by filming a spoof video, which shows Depardieu on a plane in character as Obelix, unable to resist his urge to eat wild boar.
Meanwhile, Depardieu's bumpy international film career seems to have taken an upward turn. After solid performances in domestic hits Mammuth and François Ozon's Potiche, he'll next appear in Ang Lee's big budget adaptation of Life of Pi. Based on Yann Martel's novel, the film follows a shipwrecked teenager who is stuck on a life raft with a zebra, a hyena, and a Bengal tiger known as Richard Parker. Depardieu plays a mysterious character called Frenchman, who is thought to be an alter ego of the hyena dreamed up by Pi.
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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/aug/17/gerard-gepardieu-accused-road-rage-assault
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