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Article: I'M ALL RIGHT JACQUES; French president wanted Da Vinci role for Jean Reno.(News)
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- Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- May 16, 2006
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Byline: By Rick Fulton, Showbiz Editor
THE DA VINCI CODE star Jean Reno has friends in high places, including French president Jacques Chirac who personally tried to get him cast in the biggest movie of the year.
The gruff actor, who plays stubborn French cop Bezu Fache in the movie, explained that when director Ron Howard was meeting Chirac to get permission to film some of the scenes in the Louvre, the president suggested Jean for the part of the character nicknamed 'The Bull'.
The 58-year-old laughed: "Chirac said: 'You should take Jean, he is ...