UNITED KINGDOM: Former Manchester United star Eric Cantona plays a detective looking for a killer in French action thriller "Switch"

Record ID: 220781

  • Title: UNITED KINGDOM: Former Manchester United star Eric Cantona plays a detective looking for a killer in French action thriller "Switch"
  • Date: 27th March 2012
  • Summary: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (MARCH 26, 2012) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTOR ERIC CANTONA, SAYING: "I try to do different things since I started. I think it's very important when you start something to do different things so you are not like in a cage - an action movie then a second one and a third one and everything is building around you like that is the only thing you can do. I try to do different things so now I do it for 15 years so you can enjoy it. From thrillers to comedy, small, slow, motion film." VARIOUS OF CANTONA TALKING TO MEDIA
  • Embargoed: 11th April 2012 13:00
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  • Location: United Kingdom, United Kingdom
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Reuters ID: LVA8HDGX3OEZO633KY067HHAC6IC
  • Story Text: He's best known for his glittering football career in the English Premier League but Eric Cantona prefers to be known as an actor over a sportsman these days.
    The former Manchester United player premiered his latest film, "Switch" in London on Monday night (March 26) - a French action thriller in which he plays a police officer called Detective Forgeat .
    Speaking to Reuters, Cantona said the film is about a young woman's holiday from hell and the hunt for a killer.
    "She's a girl a bit depressed and someone gives her an idea to switch apartment and go to Paris and have a good time in Paris. She switched her apartment with a girl in Paris - she lives in Canada. She arrives in Paris everything is wonderful - the weather is beautiful - Paris is of course a wonderful city. She wake up in the morning and somebody is killed inside the house and so a dream turns into a nightmare - the story starts from that," he said.
    The young woman, Sophie, is the chief suspect and she goes on the run to prove her innocence. Detective Forgeat must find her and hunt down the real killer.
    Cantona said he enjoyed filming the intense chase scenes but told Reuters he doesn't intend to be pigeon-holed as an action hero.
    "I try to do different things since I started. I think it's very important when you start something to do different things so you are not like in a cage - an action movie then a second one and a third one and everything is building around you like that is the only thing you can do. I try to do different things so now I do it for 15 years so you can enjoy it. From thrillers to comedy, small, slow, motion film," he said.
    Voted Manchester United's greatest ever player, Cantona is a considered a footballing legend by his fans. In 1995 he was given a nine month ban after karate kicking a fan who shouted at him. He retired from the sport in May 1997, saying he wanted to concentrate on acting and has since appeared in more than 20 films.
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