One internationally renowned French bad boy may, it seems, play another in a film next year.
The actor Gerard Depardieu gave credence yesterday to rumours that he had been asked to play a character based on the disgraced former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn in a movie next year.
"You know what rumours are," Depardieu said in an interview with the French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche. "But in general terms I am quite good at playing characters that I don't like or people that don't resemble me."
There have been persistent rumours in France that Depardieu has agreed to play a character loosely based on Strauss-Kahn with Isabelle Adjani tentatively cast as his wife, Anne Sinclair.
A French production company, Wild Bunch, denied commissioning the film but Depardieu's refusal to shoot down the reports is the firmest indication so far that they may be correct.
