Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Jonathan Cohen, Marion Cotillard, Vincent Cassel, Angèle... But also and above all Gilles Lellouche and Guillaume Canet.
The next film starring Asterix and Obelix promises a five-star cast.
Expected in theaters on February 1, the comedy tells the adventures of the inseparable duo of Gauls trying to save the Empress of China from the Romans.
Guillaume Canet wears a double hat in this film: that of director but also of actor.
"I didn't want to do both because it seemed to me to be quite enormous to be in front of and behind the camera but hey, there you go [...] no, but I was very happy to do it in the end, and especially to do with Gilles”
.
Indeed, the producer as well as the distributors were able to convince the 49-year-old man to embody Asterix alongside his friend, Gilles Lellouche, in the skin of Obélix.
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“He has daisies in his eyes”
And precisely, to slip into this character, the actor of
Bac Nord
had to give of his person.
"When we play Obélix, we can't just wear accessories
," jokes the presenter, addressing Gilles Lellouche.
Indeed, the man declares to have had to take
“20 kilos in six months.
There was a big responsibility [...] Succeeding
Gérard Depardieu
, it was complicated in my head.
During filming, the new Obélix tried several times to join his counterpart from the past, without much success.
Until Gérard Depardieu finally called him back to tell him:
"Want some advice?
I'm going to tell you something, it's that Obelix has daisies in his eyes, that's all.
Hello deer”
and he hung up.
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Beyond playing in the same film, Guillaume Canet and Gilles Lellouche are real friends in life.
Legitimately, the interviewer asked them if this relationship helped them find the right tone or if, on the contrary, it put a spoke in their wheels.
“The advantage we had in the friendship we have had for each other for 25 years now is that we had small couple crises in our bromance”
, answers Gilles Lellouche without filter .
Revelation affirmed by Guillaume Canet:
“we had a good fight yeah”
.
“We argued a lot, to find each other better afterwards, but like the characters.
This is what is very interesting in this film, it is that we are in the intimacy of these characters whom we have known for so long and it becomes, probably for the first time, well I find, extremely touching”
, argues the interpreter of Obélix.
