Actor Gérard Depardieu has tried to laugh off his recent lack of bladder control on a flight from Paris to Dublin by recording a video mocking the incident.

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Depardieu takes video aim at pee incident

Actor Gérard Depardieu has tried to laugh off his recent lack of bladder control on a flight from Paris to Dublin by recording a video mocking the incident.

Published: 5 September 2011 09:59 CEST

Depardieu takes video aim at pee incident

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The short film was recorded in Ireland where he is currently filming the latest in the Asterix and Obelisk films.

It shows Depardieu supposedly seated at the front of an aircraft, which is actually a coach, with his co-star Edouard Baer.

Baer was with him on the now infamous flight from Paris to Dublin on August 16th.

The two are shown reading newspapers as a flight attendant announces that passengers must ready themselves for take-off.

“I need a wild boar,” says Depardieu suddenly.

“We’re about to take off,” says Baer.

“I can’t wait, I need one right now,” says Depardieu. “Please, miss, can I have a wild boar?” he says.

“After take-off,” replies a flight attendant.

“I need one right now. I can’t wait,” he then says, leaping up as the flight attendant pleads with him to sit. Depardieu finally makes a break for the exit while the other passengers look on disgusted.

See also: Depardieu ‘was trying to pee into bottle’ on delayed flight

Les Gaulois dans l’espace by EdouardBaer

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'Donald Trump is no idiot and Marine Le Pen isn't a threat...'

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Donald Trump is no “idiot” according to French actor Gerard Depardieu, who compared him favourably to the previous Republican US president George W. Bush in an interview on Sunday.

“Unlike George W. Bush he (Trump) is not an idiot, he says things that are bigger than him,” Depardieu told the Journal du Dimanche newspaper.

“No-one knows what he's capable of.”

But Depardieu blamed president-elect Trump's rise to power on the increasing detachment of politicians from the feelings and desires of ordinary voters.

“It's a good lesson for politicians who have been doing nothing for a long time,” added the 67-year-old, who rose to fame in films such as “The Last Metro”, “Police” and “Cyrano de Bergerac”.

“The confidence has been broken, the people want to take back control,” Depardieu added.

Like Trump, Depardieu is on friendly terms with Russian president Vladimir Putin and accepted Russian citizenship in 2013 in protest at a proposed tax hike on the rich in his homeland.

Depardieu is a controversial figure in France having announced in 2012 he was giving back his French passport and moving to Belgium over the socialist government's tax rise.

Since then he has delighted in making controversial and pro-Russian statements.

Trump too has been highly complimentary of Putin, whose relations with the Barack Obama administration and European Union are strained.

Despite the rise of populist and patriotic politicians and parties in several Western countries, Depardieu dismissed the notion that far-right candidate Marine Le Pen could win next year's French presidential election.

“Marine Le Pen is not a threat, that's rubbish,” he said.

“She's part of the collateral damage of a society which fails to control its new means of communication and passes its time building castles in the sky.”

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