Actor Gérard Depardieu acknowledges boorish behavior but denies sexual assault | Hollywood
Mar 25, 2025 04:24 PM IST Actor Gérard Depardieu acknowledges boorish behavior but denies sexual assault PARIS — Actor Gérard Depardieu acknowledged Tuesday that he used crude and heated language around a woman who accuses him of sexual assault and grabbed her hips but denied assaulting her, as he testified for the first time at his landmark trial in Paris. Actor Gérard Depardieu acknowledges boorish behavior but denies sexual assault “I understand perfectly if she’s a bit upset,” he said of the set dresser he worked with on a movie in 2021. He acknowledged that he sometimes has a potty mouth, telling the court: “I am capable of trash talk.” And he admitted that he was wrong to use heated language with the woman when they had an on-set argument about a painting. “I don’t have to talk like that, get angry like that, voilà,” he said in his gruff, deep voice so familiar to global cinemagoers. The 76-year-old former Oscar nominee has denied sexual assault allegations filed by the 54-year-old set dresser and a …
