Guillaume Canet fulfills a dream: to make a movie around the adventures of Asterix and Obelix. Marion Cotillard’s friend even wore the little mustache Gaul costume in his super production. Asterix and Obelix: The Middle KingdomReleased on February 1st.
In the cast, we find a shower of stars starting with Gilles Lellouche, Jonathan Cohen, Ramzy Bédia, José Garcia, Audrey Lamy, Angèle, Orelsan, Pierre Richard and many more as Obélix.
Guillaume Canet entrusted the role of Julius Caesar to Vincent Cassel, who was on the set of C à vous at France 5 last night.
The ex-lover of Monica Bellucci, who is Cleopatra in Alain Chabat’s Asterix and Obelix, thus announced to Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine that she was returning to childhood by starring in her friend Guillaume Canet’s movie. “It’s kind of an advantage to making something out of a comic book. All characters may have more epidermal, more impulsive reactions in real life than you might have as an adult. gives confidence.
Vincent Cassel, the father of three, admits that he has read all of the Asterix and Obelix albums and that it has taught him a lot. “It’s unbelievable, but their jokes with Latin were my first thoughts on Latin. I was very bad at Latin in school.”, explains. He adds: “As soon as I entered the Latin languages while traveling, I realized that there were certain etymologies that came back to me because of Asterix and Obelix”.
The facilitator then turns to Jonathan Cohen and asks what he has learned from Asterix and Obelix. In a sarcastic way, this answers: “I learned English. Everyone has their own language, sorry”.
He says he discovered Asterix and Obelix “with cartoons”. Sending a little challenge to Vincent Cassel, he adds: “I am part of the generation where we learned more Latin in school”.
In Asterix and Obelix: The Middle Empire, the Empress of China is imprisoned after a coup d’etat instigated by a treacherous prince, Deng Tsin Quin. The Empress’ only daughter, Princess Fu Yi, goes to Gaul to seek help from Asterix and Obelix. The two inseparable Gauls of course agree to help the princess save her mother and liberate her country. However, always thirsty for conquest, Caesar and his mighty army also took over the leadership of the Middle Empire.
Melissa Tella
Source: Programme Television
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