In an inteview, Gérard Depardieu was asked about Tokio Hotel. He spoke highly of them. Thanks to purplehaze from TH USA Fanclub forum. for translation. If you do not know who Gérard Depardieu is, you can find out more on the Wiki.
Interview to Depardieu:
In previous years, you were often seen in major European television productions like “Der Graf von Monte Christo” or “Napoleon”.
But something like that is increasingly rare. A kind of industrial handling has entered the field of the film industry, that’s terrible. This development has also affected television. Big cross-country projects such as “Napoleon” are no more, now all that is dead, but we must not lose hope. Take the music for example, there’s a lot going on. The young French are crazy about the German band Tokio Hotel. I find that extraordinary. And it doesn’t matter whether one finds the music silly or not.
What do you think about Tokio Hotel?
I think, we should never look down on the apostle of teenagers. Tokio Hotel sing in German, and there are many young French, who now learn German only because of Tokio Hotel.
The Goethe Institute in Paris reported recently a rush to its German courses, as a result of the mania around Tokio Hotel.
There you are! That’s great, because there’s something going on. For young people that are those moments that change their life. And that confuses the adults. The chef of one of my restaurants has a daughter who is crazy about Tokio Hotel. And that scares him. I always try to reassure him: “Let them, that’s good, this way they learn German.”
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Merci Gerard! I am a 43 year old mom with 3 young boys. I came across TH this past summer while tuned into MTV. I loved the song and the video… the rest is now history. After immediately buying Scream, then Zimmer and Schrei… me and my kids are all hooked! My youngest son who just turned 5 can sing most of the German songs perfectly… it’s amazing and inspiring!! He loves Tokio Hotel and he loves music… he wants to play drums like Gustav. My other boys ages 9 & 8 also love the English and German songs. My kids are already learning Spanish… we will be working on German too because we want to understand all of Tokio Hotel’s awesome songs. I even took my kids to a CD signing in our homestate of Pennylvania… it was a thrill for us to see the band up close and get their signatures. Age is nothing but a number… music is universal and ageless. Music changes lives and influences cultures and connects us to each other all over the world… it is the most powerful thing I know. I’ve been inspired by Bill’s vocals, the great melodies and guitar rifts… and the collective talent of this young band is incredible. I love that so many fans around the world are connected by Tokio Hotel, regardless of age or nationality. I look forward to listening to more great stuff from TH. Magnifique!!
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i officially love this guy :)
…if only i knew who he was haha :/
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I’ve loved him ever since I saw “My Father the Hero” about 14 years ago!! I still love that movie.
My mom hates my music (mostly hard rock and metal, so TH is actually really light for me :) )… and anyone with a tattoo, so she doesn’t understand. She thinks “I jumped off the deep end.” Ah well… My dad is just whatever. He doesn’t really get it either, but he doesn’t say too much about it.
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Its good they get respect from people everywhere.
this was the year of Tokio Hotel.
It was also very life changing for me.
Tokio Hotel has done so much this year.
its incredible.
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I think I need to buy some of his movies now! this guy deserves much love. And he’s a good actor too, Paris je t’aime was a really cool film!
Yay for respectable people who love Tokio Hotel. I think in the end it will all come out alright. Because, who loves Tokio Hotel? Awesome people of culture and intelligence and multinationality. Venerated actors, world leaders (President Sarkozy and the prince of Monaco, anyway), the award-bestowing powers-that-be of the music industry, and of course us – the most brilliant and beautiful fans in the world. And who hates Tokio Hotel? That piece of human waste Perez Hilton, and a few pizzafaced wannabe-serialkiller boys listening to death metal in their dumpy bedrooms.
I sense imminent world domination.
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awww! that is sooo nice!! i officially love this guy!!
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This guys getting a poster on my wall.
I officially j’adore him.
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OMG!!! I don’t know him BUT I love this dude <3 xD
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oh hay We have the same gravatar!
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oh yeah..hahaha :D I love this gravatar <3 ^^
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GD is an adorable old man. I associate him with the theatre. Respect.
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Awesome!! I love when people say positive things about the boys!
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Hahaha. I wish I could get my parents into them but none of them listen to music that much, and my dad just shrugs off my obsession. He calls Bill my “Mr. McDreamy”. :D :P
But after we ate next to them my parents understood them better..it’s kinda different when your whole family meets them o.O
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Wow, that’s really lucky of you that you got to eat next to them and meet them! My dad probably wouldn’t care that he had met them, he’d still call Bill gay. :(
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Omg I know! My dad also calls ALL of them gay. It really pisses me off :[
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u ate next to them??? LUCKY!!! i havent gotten to see them in peron!!
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Go french dude!! I love it when people give them a chance, it reminds me not EVERYONE on the planet is an ignorant jackass!!
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Cheers to the french dude!!
One of the few older people not dissin TH!!!
:DD
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Oh yeah, I remember that guy from “Green Card”. Cool article.
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I know him! He’s such a great actor ! He played in many French movies and american ones too .
It’s very sweet of him.
R.I.P for his son
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I’ve seen a few of Gérard Depardieu’s movies and I loved him in them !!
Now I love him even more for understanding TH fans !!
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this guy is awsome! im glad he thinks highly of our boys,
i HATE it wen ppl talk bad about them, i always get defensive wen ppl do. i ALWAYS defend my boys cuz i love them!
CHEERS TO TH AND THE PPL WHO LOVE THEM!……like us…hehe
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lol “Let them, that’s good, this way they learn German.” YAY! xDDD This guy is awesomesauce =P
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I love this guy! He’s a megatalented actor
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He’s in 102 Dalmations =DDDDDD
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I love this guy! I thought I recognized him from Last Holiday…
Anyway, he is totally right! They inspired me to start learning German.. and that is really cool!
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i love this dude. whoever he is, i love him.
such beautiful words! :’-)
:D
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He’s D’artagnan from that movie with Leonardo dicaprio, I don’t remember the name of the movie. the one about the king of France.
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That’s so wonderful! 2008 has been such a great year =]
if only immortality and eternal youth existed…
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I like him!
I think he was also the chef in the movie “Last Holiday”?
The one with Queen Latifah?
awesome that he’s actually shedding some good light on TH!
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aww im glad to hear people praise the boys <3
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oh thats so cool!!! i love this guy, hes one of my favorite actors, i had to see his pic to recognize who he was though :P i would have never thought he would know, much less even comment on TH, pretty cool though!!!
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ya i got my mom,. my sis and my twin 2yr old nieces to like tokio hotel, one likes bill and the other tom . I so want them to meet the boys
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AWHH! how sweet of him xD
and omg i really need to get my mom to read this cause she luvs french but i really want to take german too and shes not .. convinced yet. :)
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I’m glad that he supports Tokio Hotel like that, but I would be even happier if my school would give German courses. They do but not at first level which makes me unhappy but I will learn German one way or another!!!!<3
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This dude is my BEST FRIEND! Next to Tom,of course.
=D heehee♥
Anywho,this great news!
This dude is,like I said,my second best friend.♥
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kickass :)
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My dad should have a talk with him lol! I’m almost 18, and my dad hates that i’m so obsessed with TH, he thinks its bad for me actually… *rolls eyes*
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LMFAO, my dad thought that too, but he listened to the album and watched Caught on Camera with me and he’s kinda fan too! Tell dad to give it a chance! :3
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you are not the only one. my mom think i need to see a counsler.
lamoo
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my dad thinks it’s bad too
he hates the rocker image and when guys wear makeup but i tell him who cares! But i did manage to get my mom into their music and now she sings along but she still just doesn’t like the rocker image too….whatever….
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lol yeah that’s kind of like how my mom and I are fans, but we don’t talk about them that much in front of my sister and she always yells at us (who harasses their mom?!? but she just yells whenever she says anything though haha) and says we’re obsessed *rolls eyes*
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Hang in their Kid, my family is UBER conservative Christian, and I had to keep my liking of them secret for almost a month because of the way they look, and I didn’t tell anyone I was in love with Bill for even longer. My parents are SEMI okay with it, but my grandfather calls Bill a “neo-nazi queer”. *sighs* your parents will get it in time. Just be glad they are alright with your love right now.
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Oh, I wish I could have a chat with all your parents. My daughter is 13, and I’m the one that discovered the guys and got her into them.. now we’re both equally obsessed, and SOMEHOW I still manage to hold down a fulltime job, manage a home and be a productive citizen. Isn’t it amazing that it hasn’t destroyed my brain or been otherwise “bad” for me!
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Lol. nice job, TH-lovin mom!! Isn’t that awesome?! How we seem to be totally successful, ambitious, respectable people and we listen to this “crazy rock music”?!
Rock On!!
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Well, to be fair, I was an 80′s hair metal loving teenager, so Bill’s appearance didn’t phase me – I’m used to dudes with makeup and spiky hair. That, and the fact that I never stopped loving music and going to see bands live. I can’t wait for the guys’ next tour so we can go see them 3-4 more times… let the 2009 concert budgeting begin!
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That’s soo awsome I do envy you and your daughter’s relationship it must be great! :D MY mom’s in her 60′s and she still gets on my case even if i’m in my 40s! lolll Don’t worry I don’t live w her she just hates it when I talk about them or when I went to the show or when she gets in MY car and has to listen to them lolll But hey! My life; my love of TH get over it I say! :D An d good on you Uber-mom!;-)
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I officially (heart) this guy.
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I heart him too.. <33333333333333333333333333
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wooo hooo!
a guy who gets it!
<3
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guys this is great!!!!! he totally gets it!!!! it does scare older people when young people get infatuated with a band or actor or whatever…i mean sometimes it’s a bad thing, but i find that it rarely is with tokio hotel
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:D nice! at least someone respects them and doesnt right them off as a boy band >:O. much love to the french dude.
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agree!
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Totally second that.
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Technically, you “third” that, but w/e ;)
And I fourth it! If I wasn’t learning something from Tokio Hotel, my dad would have condemned the band from the house! He hates them, and he doesn’t like how obsessed I am, but He says “it’s always a great thing to learn a second language, and if a bunch of effeminate men are doing just that, hey, whatever gets you to learn!”
Though he does say if I print out any more pictures of Bill to put on my wall, he’s sending me to a ‘Bill-lovers anonymous’ meeting. And extensive psychotherapy. :D