Asterix and Obelix, The Middle Empire will hit theaters on February 1. Guillaume Canet is directing this new feature film featuring the most famous of the Gauls in a completely new adventure. He chose his accomplice Gilles Lellouche to play Obélix and Marion Cotillard to play Cleopatra. Guest on the set of Daily, the actress reluctantly confided that her son Marcel hated her in the role, as did her daughter Louise. But she explained the specific reason that earned her this criticism. “They couldn’t stand my kissing Vincent Cassel on the mouth”, she pointed out.
Gilles Lellouche praises the work of director Guillaume Canet
Yann Barthès underlined that the film highlighted the friendship between the two heroes of Uderzo and Goscinny. “It’s not because we’re angry that I won’t help you. This sentence is great. Have you ever said it to Guillaume in real life?”, asked the facilitator to the interpreter of Obélix. “Yes, it happened to us to have moments of quarrels, troubles, even very strong shouting matches, major disagreements, because we also worked a lot together. So mixing work, friendship and intimacy is special. But it is obvious that despite all the quarrels that we can have, the differences, the day when he is in the shit, I am there. And I think it’s extremely reciprocal.” observed the actor. After this beautiful declaration of friendship, Gilles Lellouche expressed his pride in seeing his friend at the helm of such an important film. “I have a lot of pleasure and admiration in seeing my friend manage such a big, epic, sometimes complicated shoot. The weather conditions, shooting post-covid, so many characters, so many actors, actresses, It was very complicated. Of course he could count on me, but he could count on the rest of the team.” he added.
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Guillaume Canet thanks Gilles Lellouche for being a good friend during the filming of the film
Guillaume Canet bounced back on the glowing words of his comrade. “I’m very happy because we made movies together. We didn’t act together a lot. We acted in each other’s movies. It never went so well. We spent four months, and while we were able to argue on other sets, there it was a joy”, he wanted to add. Before pointing out that the mood of the interpreter of Obélix had even had an impact on the atmosphere of the shooting. “And he was so caring, patient. He was there with his costume. He was eating the raclette all day. And frankly, he was really super cool. And he gave a note, where like him, he was cool, nobody allowed themselves not to be cool. He really helped me a lot in that”, he pointed out.
