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The Sun
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Bond girl unrecognisable 44 years after bedding 007, high-profile romances & Sex And The City role – can you guess who?
A BOND Girl looks unrecognisable 44 years after bedding 007. Starring alongside Sir Roger Moore, this beautiful lady stole hearts when she played the role of an iconic Bond Girl. 6 6 She was known for the role of Melina Havelock in For Your Eyes Only way back when in 1981. Her character even famously bedded Bond in the hit flick. Going on to have a glowing career in TV and film, she appeared alongside Sarah Jessica Parker in an episode of Sex and the City. She also starred in movie The Bridge. You've guessed it, it's 67-year-old French-born actress Carole Bouquet. The brunette beauty was seen arriving at the Chanel fashion show in Paris on Tuesday. She could be seen wearing a beautiful ensemble comprising of a black and grey tweed skirt and jacket. Carole wore her brunette hair down, with the mid-length locks brushing her shoulders. Smiling for the camera, the lady in her 60s looked ageless. Carole, who was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, has made headlines with her love life in the past. Diletta Leotta shows off new 'Bond girl' look as DAZN host puts on revealing display in low cut ski suit She was the companion of film producer Jean-Pierre Rassam from 1981 until 1985 and the couple welcomed son Dimitri Rassam. She later had a son, Louis, with photographer Francis Giacobetti. In 1992, she married immunologist Jacques Leibowitch, but they divorced in 1996. From 1996 to 2005, she was in a relationship with actor Gérard Depardieu. 6 6 And since 2014, she has been in a relationship with Philippe Sereys de Rothschild. In 2008, Carole opened up in a candid interview about her life and being considered as "beautiful". Speaking to The Independent, she said: "I first noticed that when I was about 13. I was very shy. "Being considered beautiful, I always felt that people were waiting for something more," she added. She went on: "I imagined you were supposed to have an intellectual ability – and I'm making no claims here – proportional to your supposed good looks. "I think that's what I meant when I was talking about beauty. "I felt I should be proving I deserved the attention. "That I should be doing something special," she candidly said. 6
Daily Mail
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
She was a sizzling Bond girl who appeared on Sex & The City and was married 3 times, who is she?
This silver screen goddess was one of the most stunning Bond girls of all time. Her 007 film came out in the 1980s and is memorable for her sexy but steely performance opposite Roger Moore. She went on to act in several films like The Bridge and she also appeared in an episode of Sex And The City with Sarah Jessica Parker. Her love life also made headline news as she was wed three times, and from 1996 to 2005 she was in a relationship with French actor Gérard Depardieu. She is now in her sixties but still has a timeless beauty. The dark-haired beauty was seen entering the Chanel fashion show in Paris on Tuesday as fans went wild. Who is she? She is Carole Bouquet, 67. Bouquet played Melina Havelock in For Your Eyes Only in 1981. The film saw Bond trying to recover a strategic communications device before it finds its way into the hands of the Russians. The locations were England, Greece, Italy, and the Bahamas, And Carole played Resistance heroine Lucie Aubrac in Claude Berri's 1997 film of the same name. She also had a part in Francis Ford Coppola's section of New York Stories. In 2008 she talked to UK newspaper The Independent about her life. 'I first noticed that when I was about 13. I was very shy,' said the award-winning actress. 'Being considered beautiful, I always felt that people were waiting for something more,' she added. 'I imagined you were supposed to have an intellectual ability – and I'm making no claims here – proportional to your supposed good looks. 'I think that's what I meant when I was talking about beauty. I felt I should be proving I deserved the attention; that I should be doing something special,' she said. She is Carole Bouquet. She also acted in The Bridge and she also appeared in an episode of Sex And The City with Sarah Jessica Parker And she talked working with Gerard in Too Beautiful For You in 1989. 'When I was working with Gerard Depardieu he was married,' she shared. 'I never wanted to steal him. The idea never occurred to me.' Bouquet - who was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in France - has appeared in more than 60 films since 1977. She made her film acting debut in Luis Buñuel's surrealist classic That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) and won the César Award for Best Actress for her performance in Too Beautiful For You. In the 1980s, she was a model for French label Chanel. She was the face of Chanel No. 5 fragrance from 1986 to 1997. She was the companion of film producer Jean-Pierre Rassam, with whom she had a son, Dimitri Rassam, also a producer. In 1987, she gave birth to a son, Louis, with photographer Francis Giacobetti. She married immunologist Jacques Leibowitch in 1992; they divorced in 1996. After that came Depardieu. In 2014 she dated Philippe Sereys de Rothschild.
LeMonde
14-06-2025
- Entertainment
- LeMonde
French actress Anouk Grinberg: 'My soul was born with my son'
Known until now as an actress, at 62 Anouk Grinberg has become an advocate for women who have filed complaints against actor Gérard Depardieu. While many thought she was a privileged child from an artistic background, she reveals herself as a young girl damaged by a dysfunctional family, which left her vulnerable to predators. Respet ("Respect") is the title Grinberg chose to describe her youth and upbringing in her new book, as well as her rebirth. I would never have gotten here if... I could tell my story through everything that damaged me, or even killed off parts of myself, or, on the contrary, through what and who brought me back to life. But if I go all the way back, I believe I would not be who I am if I had not breathed in my mother's despair from birth. If I had not seen her, throughout my childhood and adolescence, attempt suicide so many times. That lack of light in my youth gave me a thirst for brightness and pushed me to become who I am today.
The Guardian
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
The worst sports movie in history? I asked Sepp Blatter about Fifa's United Passions
There are movies that bomb at the box office. And then there is the Fifa biopic United Passions, starring Tim Roth, Sam Neill and Gérard Depardieu, which was hit with the cinematic equivalent of a thermonuclear strike when it opened in the US 10 years ago this week. You might remember the fallout; the fact it took only $918 (£678) in its opening weekend, making it the lowest grossing film in US history at the time, and the stories detailing how two people bought tickets to see it in Philadelphia, and only one in Phoenix, before it was pulled by distributors. Then there were the reviews. 'As cinema it is excrement,' Jordan Hoffman wrote in the Guardian. 'As proof of corporate insanity it is a valuable case study. United Passions is a disgrace.' Admittedly, there was never going to be a good time to launch 109 minutes of soft-sheen history and propaganda about Jules Rimet, João Havelange and Sepp Blatter. But when 14 Fifa members were indicted on corruption charges just days before the $26m (£19m) film's US release, the film became a byword for hubris and excess. Only in Russia, where it made £140,000 at the box office, did it muster any sort of audience. Although what they made of Neill's attempt at Havelenge's accent, which veered wildly between Brazil, New Zealand and Ireland, is anyone's guess. The 10-year anniversary seemed like the perfect time for me to grit my teeth and watch United Passions for the first time. I also hoped that those involved might have got over their collective embarrassment and would be prepared to talk about it. Was it really the worst sports movie in history? Worse than Rocky V? Or the Love Guru, which starred Mike Myers as a bearded Indian whose task, in the words of the Observer's then critic Philip French, 'is to counsel a black ice-hockey star whose wife has run off with a French Canadian goalkeeper known as 'Le Coq' for the prodigious size of his membrum virile'. Having watched it, I can say that United Passions really is right up there. The script feels like it was written by a 2015 version of ChatGPT that has been programmed to hate the English, who come across as universally pompous. The dodgy stuff in Fifa's history is danced around, or ignored. And some of it is so cringey it makes you gasp. At one point, for instance, Blatter expresses his fears over the 1978 World Cup in Argentina because the military government is murdering its opponents. 'Who cares,' Havelange replies. 'During the World Cup they only dream of one thing, that ball. Because football brings consolation to all tragedies and sorrows!' That is the same Havelange who took millions in bribes and kickbacks from Fifa's deals with the marketing company ISL. In fact, United Passions is so comically awful the Internet Movie Database gives it 2.1 out of 10, a ranking so dismal it would qualify for its worst 100 films of all time list if it had the 10,000 votes needed to qualify. When the film came out Roth, who plays Blatter, admitted: 'This is a role that will have my father turning in his grave,' before confessing he did it only to put his kids through college. You can fault his performance, but not his honesty. A decade on, however, few others want to revisit it. The publicist sent me a lovely email but didn't remember many specifics. An ex-Fifa employee jokingly referred to the film as a 'blockbuster' but had only vague memories of its genesis. Fifa, meanwhile, didn't want to comment. The only exception? Blatter himself. When I spoke to his official spokesperson, Thomas Renggli, he asked me to fire over a few questions. A day later, he came back with the replies. 'Obviously the movie was not a success,' Blatter, who turns 90 next year, told me. 'A movie about Fifa is always controversial, so for me it was not a surprise that the opinions were so different in Russia and in the US.' Blatter also insisted that the concept of United Passions had not come from him and, contrary to internet rumour, he had not tinkered with the script to make himself the hero. 'The idea came up after there was a small movie called Goal,' he said. 'And in this environment, the Fifa management brought up the idea of producing a big movie. It was definitely not only me behind it. And concerning my part in the production, I was only an adviser. I was not involved in the script.' Which is just as well, because it is bad. Really, really bad. A few minutes into the film, for instance, Rimet tries to get Football Association bigwigs to join Fifa while speaking to them at half-time during a game. 'Our boys are two goals down gentlemen!' Rimet is told. 'There are things much more important than life and death. There is football. And at half-time things are deadly serious!' Blatter also insisted he was OK with how the film turned out, but Renggli told me that there was befuddlement when it was shown to Fifa employees before its premiere at the Cannes film festival. 'We were all sitting there in this big auditorium and everybody was thinking, 'what do they want to tell us with this film?' To me it did not make sense at all.' There are some, of course, who think Fifa will be making another expensive mistake in the US this weekend when it launches its 32-team Club World Cup. The early signs are not positive, with tickets for the opening game between Lionel Messi's Inter Miami and Al Ahly going for $55 – 16% of the original asking price of $349. There are also concerns with player welfare, given the increase in the number of games and Blatter, who was recently cleared of fraud by a Swiss court, is not a fan of the tournament, or next year's expanded 48-team World Cup. 'Havelange once told me that I made a monster when I created this wedding between TV and football,' he told me. 'But now it's all too much. There are too many games. And too many teams in the tournaments. Sooner or later, we will have 128 teams, like in a tennis grand slam.' And whatever you think of Blatter, or indeed United Passions, it is hard to disagree too much with those sentiments.
The Guardian
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Gérard Depardieu faces Rome trial after alleged incident with paparazzo
Gérard Depardieu is facing a trial in Rome after allegedly punching a legendary paparazzo outside a bar in the Italian capital. The French actor, who earlier this month was found guilty by a Paris court of sexually assaulting two women during a film shoot in 2021, is charged with causing personal injury to Italian photographer Rino Barillari. The case is due to begin at the court of Rome on 17 June. Depardieu, 76, is accused of punching Barillari, known in Italy as 'the king of paparazzi' for his tenacity in capturing up-close shots of celebrities, outside Harry's Bar on Via Veneto, in May last year. Barillari, 80, went to the bar, a famous stomping ground for the glitterati and the photographers who trailed them during the 1960s dolce vita period, after receiving a tip-off that Depardieu was dining there. In an interview after the alleged incident, Barillari said Depardieu, who was eating outside Harry's Bar with a friend, Magda Vavrusova, became frustrated after he saw the paparazzo taking pictures of them. Barillari claimed that Vavrusova came towards him, followed by Depardieu, who allegedly punched the photographer three times, causing him to fall to the ground. Barillari was taken to hospital and treated for a wound close to his left eye. Barillari also alleged that Depardieu showed him the middle finger, threw an ice cube towards him and shouted an insult about Italians. Depardieu denied the claims, later telling La Repubblica that Barillari had pushed him. At the time, Delphine Meillet, a lawyer for Vavrusova, said her client had been 'violently pushed' by Barillari and that Depardieu 'fell and slid' on to the paparazzo after intervening. Meillet and Jérémie Assous, a lawyer for Depardieu, have been contacted for comment. In a career spanning more than six decades, Barillari has masqueraded as priests, gardeners and bricklayers in his quest to capture photos of the rich and famous, including Princess Margaret, Jackie Kennedy, the Beatles and Frank Sinatra. But he is also well-known for getting into altercations with his targets. 'I can forgive his punches, but not the insult against Italians,' Barillari told the Italian news agency, Adnkronos, on Tuesday.
