French actor Gérard Depardieu is a world-class jerk and quite renowned for it. A notorious alcoholic, he often drinks too much on flights, causing him to act rude and aggressive towards flight personnel. Once, in a flight from Paris to Dublin, he even went as far as to pee between the aisles of the seats as the plane was landing, as he was unable and unwilling to wait and walk to a toilet.
Depardieu was promptly banned from all that airline’s flights for life. Look at him grasping on to the shoulders of Russian president Vladimir Putin… Putin isn’t the only person Depardieu has gotten his rather enormous mitts on before — he’s reportedly rather ‘gropey’ with a lot of female co-stars, actresses and assistants. One has accused him of molestation before. To his children he was always an absent father, to his wives perpetually unfaithful. There’s little about the man that’s likable.
Oh sorry, I made a mistake… In the beginning of this answer I called Depardieu a “French” actor. Scrap that! It should say ‘Russian’ actor. Because he’s now Russian. Look at that nice hat. That beautiful vodka-red skin tone. He’s renounced his French citizenship and now lives in Russia, where he’s involved in all sorts of movies, series and productions as well as commercials. He’s pretty much the Kremlin’s acting spokesman. Look at him shine, mr. Жерар Депардьё!
Why did he become Russian? Taxes. Gérard Depardieu is a tax exile. He didn’t want to give the French state too much of his precious wine money, so he switched nationalities. Now he is known for statements such as “The critics of Putin do not understand his grand vision!” or his questionable boast: “Putin and I met, and he immediately loved my hooligan side!”
From beloved internationally renowned star of French cinema to lecherous drunk goon, tax exile and fanboy of a notorious human rights violator silencing dissent like it’s going out of fashion… few celebrities are quite as jerky as Zherar Depardyo.
