Gilles Lellouche: how his daughter made him accept the role of Obelix

Gilles Lellouche is preparing to take on an important role. Indeed, he was chosen by Guillaume Canet to play Obélix in Asterix and Obelix: the Middle Empire. Only when his friend suggested that he play such a character, he was not immediately convinced. For good reason, the bar was very high. “I hesitated a lot. Already because I hadn’t had this potential option in my head. Next, because the specter of Gérard Depardieu, who was the one and the only interpreter of Obelix, it paralyzed me. Everyone told me about it and rightly so, it is irreplaceable. So I tried to do something else, “he confided on the set of C to you, Tuesday January 11, 2022.

But, Gilles Lellouche was able to count on the support of his relatives, and more particularly of his daughter, to make him want to take up this new challenge. “The person who opened my eyes is my daughter. One day, I was a little more anxious than another, I was very scared and I told myself that I was not going to do it. She said to me: ‘Wait, I didn’t quite understand, aren’t you going to do Obelix? Dad, I don’t want to hear you talk about this, you’re going to do Obelix! ‘ She is 12 years old and it was she who made me want“, he said again. It is about his daughter Ava, born of his love affair with the actress Mélanie Doutey.

We will have to wait to see Gilles Lellouche in Obelix

However, we will have to wait a little longer to discover Gilles Lellouche in the character of Obelix, since Asterix and Obelix: the Middle Empire, will be released in theaters on February 1, 2023. In the meantime, it is to be found at the cinema in the movie Farewell Mr. Hauffmann, whose plot takes place during the German occupation in 1942. A role in which the actor plays for the first time “a bastard“.

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