The actor found the controversy launched by the deputy on the barbecue “unbearable”. Which has just advised him to stop eating meat…
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Lhe controversy over the barbecue never ceases to put people on the grill… Evidenced by the new skirmish on the subject between Sandrine Rousseau and Lambert Wilson in recent days. Guest on the set of It’s up to youthe actor could not help but give his thoughts on the criticism launched last August on the barbecue by Sandrine Rousseau, who considered that having a steak grilled over the embers was “a symbol of virility “.
“I find it unbearable”, judged Lambert Wilson in the France 5 program, criticizing in passing this kind of anathemas launched “for personal ends, ends of ambitions to access supreme power within a movement Politics “. And to add: “It does not pass at all at home! And yet, I am a big supporter of Europe Écologie-Les Verts! »
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“He annoys me too”
An outing that Sandrine Rousseau obviously didn’t appreciate, who decided to give back to Lambert Wilson through the media. While she was interviewed Monday morning on the set of Telematin, on France 2, the deputy EELV-Nupes estimated that the actor who embodied de Gaulle and Commander Cousteau held “a speech from another time”. “I can piss him off, but he pisses me off too,” she continued. I really invite him to change his meat consumption, because, in the individual gestures that we can make to militate our impact on the planet, limiting meat is one of those that has the most impact… ”
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And to carry the thrust by pointing the finger at his new film Griddle – the sequel to the aptly named Barbecue – that he had come to present in It’s up to you with his colleagues Franck Dubosc, Jérôme Commandeur and Guillaume de Tonquédec. “Call his film Griddle and only promote it with men, that makes me wonder, that says something about what I denounce! “she noted, denouncing the absence of actresses from the film on the set of France 5…
Criticisms which should slip on Lambert Wilson like water on the feathers of the duck… Engaged for years in the protection of the planet, the actor did not wait for Sandrine Rousseau to take part in actions against GMOs, deforestation or animal suffering… But as a citizen, he values his freedom of speech more than anything, even if it means paying a high price for it. Thus, for having dared to criticize the lynching of Roman Polanski at the Césars in 2020, he had been purely and simply excluded from Greenpeace, after twenty years of activism within it. The cancel culture, he knows…
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