French film institution Gerard Depardieu has today announced his plans to revoke his French citizenship and become a Russian after a lengthy battle with his nation’s president on taxes.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, always one to come in with a bottle of vodka to the party probably without a shirt on, has given the green light for Depardieu, one of many rich French citizens attempting to escape Francis Hollande‘s 75% ‘supertax’ on those who earn over a million euros a year, to become an official Russki. Below is him playing one in film, as the hirsute lead Rasputin.
It’s said that Depardieu, who has been in more films than most of us have had hot dinners, was enraged by the bill which was smacked down in the high court this week anyway. Luckily he wasn’t so pissed that he pissed himself, which is what happened last time.
via BBC Europe
