THE OVEREATER
Cantona is barely recognisable in the title role of L'Outremangeur - The Overeater - currently filming in Paris's chic 16th arrondissement.
The 36-year-old agreed to put on weight for the part, but the effect is principally the result of four hours of make-up and an enormous false stomach.
"I'm pouring with sweat,"
"But the story is so touching that it was worth making a few sacrifices. At the start it was the idea of undertaking a metamorphosis that attracted me.But it was when they had to take moulds of my face and my body that I had problems. You know, I am claustrophobic. I never take the lift. But I am getting used to the false stomach, and things are improving all the time," he said.
"But the story is so touching that it was worth making a few sacrifices. At the start it was the idea of undertaking a metamorphosis that attracted me.But it was when they had to take moulds of my face and my body that I had problems. You know, I am claustrophobic. I never take the lift. But I am getting used to the false stomach, and things are improving all the time," he said.
Cantona plays 160-kilogram Richard Selena - a police superintendent who discovers that a beautiful young woman is the murderer he is seeking. In exchange for his silence she agrees to dine with him every evening for a year - in the course of which he falls for her charms and decides to lose weight. The story is based on a French comic-book of the same name.