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- Gérard Depardieu, Jean De Florette, France-Italy-Switzerland, 1985. While producteur-realisateur (and monstre sacrée) Claude Berri was testing the stage-screen star for Marcel Pagnol’s titular hunchback, cameraman Bruno Nuttyen suggested Depardieu - who rapidly agreed and brought with him co-production money and his wife, Elisabeth, as his screen wife, Aimée. “Yes, Berri was a monster,” said Depardieu. “Like Marguerite Duras or Maurice Pialat were monsters in their genre.”
- Gérard Depardieu, Germinal, France, 1992. Trying to cast Emile Zola’s brave type miner, Touissaint Maheu, was not easy. The realisateur (Claude Berri again) first discussed it with Depardieu on a flight to New York... though, still thinking of the mainly stage star Weber. Then, Berri thought again - and saved his film. His fourth with Depardieu.
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