Depardieu: 'I'm too fat to assault women'

The French star, 76, was speaking on the second day of a trial in Paris that could see him jailed for up to five years if found guilty of attacking two women during filming for The Green Shutters (Les Volets Verts) in 2021.
Depardieu needed to lean on his lawyer Jeremie Assous as he made his way into the courtroom, where he said: "Cinema is no longer for me. There comes a time when you have to stop and I'm stopping."
The star of Jean de Florette and Cyrano de Bergerac denies sexual assault and referenced the French serial killer Emile Louis as he told the court: "I'm not going to have fun at 76 or at 130 kilos [20.4 stone]. I'm not going to touch anyone's butt, not on a set or anywhere else. I'm not Emile Louis.
"I don't see why I would enjoy groping a woman, touching her buttocks, her breasts. Groping is what kids do.
"After what I've read about myself over the past three years, there's no need to interpret. People say I'm a real creep."
Depardieu said his appearance in around 250 films may have given him the reputation as "a thug" who "takes part in rapes".
Asked if he recalled any wrongdoing on the set of The Green Shutters, Depardieu said there was not and that if there was physical contact, it was because he grabbed one of the women's hips, "so as no...