(From top) Depardieu, Kahn

Paris, March 15 (AP): French cinema icon Gerard Depardieu says he is going to play former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn in a movie because he does not like him.

An American filmmaker said last month that the 63-year-old actor would star in a film about last May’s sex scandal in New York that derailed Strauss-Kahn’s political career. In an interview with Swiss Television RTS yesterday, Depardieu, whose voice slurs several times, accused the former IMF head of being “unpleasant” and “arrogant”.