Juliette Binoche says her Chocolat co-star Johnny Depp 'actually didn't like chocolate'


The 2000 film Chocolat features a chocolate-shop owner (Juliette Binoche) who teaches a town to live a little — and eat chocolate. Along the way, she falls for a river-traveling gypsy (Johnny Depp), and wins him over — with help from chocolate. Her daughter, too, learns a lot of life lessons — and makes chocolate. The takeaway of this movie is basically that chocolate is great.
So imagine my surprise upon reading an interview with Juliette Binoche in The Hollywood Reporter's latest issue, in which she says Johnny Depp "actually didn't like chocolate."
"He was spitting it out after each take," Binoche says. "[Fellow co-star] Alfred Molina didn't like chocolate that much, either. It was a funny experience dealing with them and the faces they would make."
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Look: I'm not saying anyone in the world who doesn't like chocolate is a monster (although someone who spits perfectly good chocolate out walks the line), but it is pretty incredible that not one but two stars who hate a treat as wonderful as chocolate decided to appear in a film named after the sweet. When they read the script, was it still called Undecided Sweets? Points for believable acting, I guess.
You can read the rest of Binoche's behind-the-scenes takes on her films through the years, over at The Hollywood Reporter.
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Sarah Eberspacher is an associate editor at TheWeek.com. She has previously worked as a sports reporter at The Livingston County Daily Press & Argus and The Arizona Republic. She graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.
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