An icon of French cinema will play the wife of President Jacques Chirac in a film called La Tortue. It is…
An unexpected project for… Catherine Deneuve! As revealed Galathe actress will take on the features of Bernadette Chirac for the first feature film by director Léa Domenach.
Only the roles have been communicated. The synopsis is not yet known. La Tortue, that’s its title, will be co-written by Léa Domenach (co-screenwriter of the Jeune et Golri series) and Clémence Dargent (co-screenwriter of the OVNIS series).
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To play Jacques Chirac, actor Denis Podalydès was chosen. A rather amusing wink when we remember that this same actor played another President of the Republic, in this case Nicolas Sarkozy, in Xavier Durringer’s film La Conquête.
Denis Podalydès as Nicolas Sarkozy in The Conquest by Xavier Durringer.
In La Conquête, Jacques Chirac was played by Bernard Le Coq, while Michèle Moretti had the features of Bernardette Chirac.
Several actors have already embodied Jacques Chirac, mainly for TV movies, including Arnaud Ducret and Samuel Labarthe.
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Filming for La Tortue is due to begin at the end of April, in Reims, Greater Reims and Épernay. The film is produced by Karé Productions.