For "Brutus vs César", Kheiron wanted "a cast that ignores gender and ethnicity"

INTERVIEW

Vercingetorix is ​​not a blond warrior.

In any case, not in Kheiron's movie, 

.

The comedian, both screenwriter and director of the feature film, signs a comedy on the murder of the most famous Roman emperor.

Guest of 

, on Europe 1, Kheiron explains how he chose his actors and actresses without seeking historical verisimilitude.

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The desire to "show diversity"

For his third film, the director of 

and 

explains that he created the cast of this film primarily according to the artists with whom he wanted to work. 

being a comedy and not a historical film, it was possible for him to take more freedom.

"I had no will not to take whites, or to take whites," explains Kheion.

"I wanted to mix profiles, to show diversity and to ignore gender and ethnicity."

This desire to send out the criteria has indeed materialized in particular on the question of the gender of the characters.

"For example, there are roles of women that have been given to men and roles of men to women," explains the director. 

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A Maghrebian Julius Caesar, or not

Kheiron explains more precisely his bias, taking the example of one of the main roles.

"I didn't necessarily want a Maghrebian actor to play Julius Caesar. I offered the role to Ramzy Bedia but if he hadn't wanted it, I might have chosen a Caucasian or black actor," says- he does.

"This is also valid for the other actors: if Thierry Lhermitte and Gérard Darmon had said 'no', I might have taken actors who were not Caucasian."

Brutus vs Caesar

is one of the works whose distribution has been disrupted by confinement and the health crisis.

Scheduled first for the big screen, the film was finally released on September 20 directly on the Amazon Prime video streaming platform.