Guillaume Canet and Marion Cotillard: their son Marcel soon in the cinema? : Current Woman The MAG


Guillaume Canet’s son in Asterix and Obelix ? The actor and director has hinted at in an exclusive interview granted Sunday April 11, 2021 to Sunday newspaper that his son, Marcel, could star in his next film, Asterix and Obelix: The Middle Kingdom. We should therefore find the whole family on the screen, since the wife of Guillaume Canet, the actress Marion Cotillard, already in the cast. 10 years old, little Marcel could well take their first steps in the cinema surrounded by their parents:Quiet…”, writes the Sunday Newspaper, it is a surprise. The actor only raised the possibility of a “little apparition”.

For his next feature film, Guillaume Canet also took on the role of the intrepid Gallic, Asterix, in addition to the director’s cap. “At the beginning, I planned to do Caesar, it was more practical as a director not to have a too important role “, he confides in The JDD.

A renowned cast

Guillaume Canet finally chose Vincent Cassel to embody the character of Caesar. The singer Angèle and footballer Zlatan Ibrahimovic will also have a place in the cast of the fifth film of the saga Asterix and Obelix, The middle Empire. Gilles Lellouche meanwhile, will play Obélix. A role for which the actor had to take “several tens of kilos”, according to Guillaume Canet. The person concerned did not experience this mass gain, to be at the height of the cult figure. “He called me saying ‘It’s terrible, I want to cry every day ‘, because he takes 20 kilos to play Obelix. And getting fat is our anxiety … “ explained Philippe Lellouche to Isabelle Morizet sure Europe 1. Marion Cotillard will, for her part, play the beautiful Cleopatra on the screen.

In a relationship for more than ten years, Marion Cotillard and Guillaume Canet have two children: Marcel, born in 2011, and little Louise born in 2017. Will Marcel follow in his parents’ footsteps? An answer to be discovered on the big screen soon when the rooms can reopen.

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