<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">The behaviour of French cinema superstar Gerard Depardieu, charged with rape and facing new scrutiny after sexist comments were broadcast in a television documentary, shames France, the culture minister said on Friday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Culture Minister Rima Abdul-Malak also said that the Grand Chancery of the Legion of Honour would initiate a "disciplinary procedure" to decide whether to strip Depardieu of the country's top honour.</div><div><br></div><div>Depardieu, 74, was charged with rape in 2020 and has also faced 13 accusations of sexual harassment or assault.</div><div><br></div><div>A documentary titled "The Fall of the Ogre" shows the actor on a 2018 trip to North Korea repeatedly making explicit sexual comments in the presence of a female interpreter and sexualising a small girl riding a horse. It was aired last week on France 2 television.</div><div><br></div><div>"Directors will decide if he has roles in films in the future or not," Abdul-Malak told reporters in the southern town of Moissac.</div><div><br></div><div>"I don't think he has many offers arriving now on his desk."</div><div><br></div><div>She said the comments broadcast in the France 2 report were "absolutely shocking" and she was "disgusted" by his behaviour, reports AFP</div><div><br></div><div>She denounced "an attitude which is intended to be joking and provocative, but is in fact disrespectful and undignified and shames France, because he is a monument of cinema throughout the world."&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>