For a role in the cinema, Gilles Lellouche is capable of everything. Even gain weight. Lots of weight. This is how the actor went up to 100 kilos on the scale.
In the eyes of the general public, difficult to do better thanAsterix and Obelix: Cleopatra missionAlain Chabat’s cult film. However, this is the bet that Guillaume Canet attempted in 2023 with Asterix and Obelix: the Middle Empire Broadcast for the first time in clear on TF1 on April 20. Unfortunately, the film was argued by criticism and finished its race at “only” 4.6 million spectators in France, making a commercial failure.
For this film, Gilles Lellouche had invested a lot in the role of Obelix …
How many pounds has taken Gilles Lellouche to embody Obélix?
In Asterix and Obelix: the Middle Empire, Gilles Lellouche therefore resumed the role of Obelix and the task was immense since he then put his steps in those of the incomparable Gérard Depardieu – since become pariah of the cinema due to alleged accusations of rapes and sexual assaults – who made this character a little more cult even by embodying it four times in the cinema.
As relates TV MagGilles Lellouche had admitted on promo to having had “A Blue Trouble“Until the first day of filming. But the 52 -year -old actor had taken things very heart to enter the skin of Obelix … going so far as to gain weight in addition to the costume. “Twenty kilos in six months”he had explained to Anne-Claire Coudray, on the 8-hour JT set of TF1. A physical transformation worthy of Christian Bale, a great regular of the genre …
Gilles Lellouche’s impressive weight gain: “After two weeks I wanted to die!”
Gilles Lellouche’s diet at the time to gain weight quickly, when it admits a frying basic? “The raclette, the cookies …”had he admitted to Yves Calvi on the airwaves of RTL. And Gilles Lellouche to specify: “We eat 4 to 5 times a day. I was doing atrocious powders. And I did a lot of muscles.”
An exercise that was not a pleasure for the actor, who had managed to reach 100 kilos for the needs of the film. “It’s very funny at first, but after two weeks I wanted to die!”he said to TV 7 days. Before confiding that he was very afraid of filming that feature film: “The first day I thought I was going to have a heart attack.” A comedy that he has undoubtedly since shown his children, he who is the dad of Ava, born from his relationship with Mélanie Doutey, and Jules, son he had with his current partner, Alizée Guinochet.
