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Paris Match Magazine (French), July 27,2000
"Depardieu: the alert"
pg 1
Copyright 2000, Paris Match Magazine, Paris
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Note: This article translated from the French by myself with the aid of a machine translator. This is not a professional job, but you'll get the gist. Ginny
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"Depardieu: Attention Fragile"
by Agathe Godard and Jérome Béglé
He comes back from afar. Hospitalized in emergency, the actor underwent a quintuple bypass surgery. The giant is going to sober.
Perched on a robust horse of Tuscany, the heavy weight of French movies celebrates the dolce vita with thundering laughter. On the first days of the summer, Gérard Depardieu, 110 kilograms and then some, came to promote the culture and the culinary art of Tuscany, on the invitation of the count Gaddo Della Gherardesca, the friend of Sarah Ferguson. The actor appears to be at the top of his form. He has just finished the promotion at Cannes of "Vatel", and was getting ready to take on his role of neighbor in "Le Placard", a comedy by Francis Veber. A real bulimia of work! Weary, the giant with the legendary appetite abused terrestrial foods. Not three weeks later, on the 10th of July, the team of Dr Dreyfus, of Hôpital Foch in Suresnes, must operate in emergency on Depardieu who's on the verge of a heart attack. What to think of this man in love with life... with the tender heart.
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Like Bacchus celebrating on his donkey the lavishness of nature, Gérard Depardieu drags a young admirer in regional costume on the paths of Tuscany for the feast of Castegneto, June 24. (click for close-up)
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Cannes, March 1997, during the Mip-T.v. Gérard, who is going to film "The Count of Monte Cristo" for the television, looks perfectly good in his skin: a giant's stature, an athlete's strength. (click for close-up)
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Cannes, May 1998, during the 51st Festival. The most popular actor of France resembles Obélix, the debonair giant that he gets ready to embody: he will weigh 120 kilograms soon. (click for close-up)
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ONE DAY ELEGANT, INTRIGUING THE MIP - T. V. OF CANNES, THE NEXT, HE'S OBELIX. FOR TWENTY YEARS, HE MAKES TONS OF IT
He didn't lose any of his charm and affected to take his problems of plumpness with humor, but overworking and good food had, in one year, left its mark. Gérard has customarily observed severe diets when he judges himself too large. But this time that kind of 'shock treatment' will remain ineffective. He will lose some kilograms, he will regain them just as quickly. During the filming of "Les Miserables", last winter, his weight Yo-yo'd, to the big panic of his partners and Josée Dayans, the director -- literally. Still in love with life, always more stressed, the actor experiences a veritable peak of bulimia and continues to smoke, every day, between two and three packs of Gitanes without filters. His entourage implores him in vain to be careful. He runs right to the disaster, he knows it very well. But, like a boxer in the ring, he will wait for the ultimate moment to throw in the towel.
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