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“Gilles Lelâche”: Lellouche Sparks Controversy by Refusing to Take a Stand Against the National Rally

Since refusing to take a stand against the National Rally at a press conference in Cannes, where he was presenting the film in which he plays the role of resistance fighter Jean Moulin, Gilles Lellouche has been heavily criticized on social media. So much so that he's been nicknamed "Gilles Lelâche."

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Since refusing to take a stand against the National Rally at a press conference in Cannes, where he was presenting the film in which he plays the role of resistance fighter Jean Moulin, Gilles Lellouche has been heavily criticized on social media. So much so that he's been nicknamed "Gilles Lelâche."

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Criticized for not answering a question from an activist at the Cannes Film Festival, Gilles Lellouche was right not to turn Jean Moulin's figure into an accessory to partisan politics.

Right

At a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival for the film Moulin de László Nemes, actor Gilles Lellouche rebarred a journalist "decolonial" of Distinguished Words, a sulfurous far-left media linked to the Parti des Indiens de la République, who asked about the National Rally and presented France as the best "wall against the far right". "Is it not a bit oriented, your question?" he replied, refusing to comment on French politics.

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The Cannes Film Festival is often the scene of significant speeches. This year, it is a sequence involving Gilles Lellouche who inflamed the social networks. Present to defend Moulin, the biopic of Jean Moulin directed by László Nemes, the actor found himself in the heart of a controversy. The reason? He refused to answer a question on the current extreme right. Asked at a press conference by a journalist of the media Words of Honour, which evok…

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Causeur broke the news on Thursday, May 21, 2026.
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