Footballer, black belt and now actor: Zlatan Ibrahimovic in the next Asterix

No, it’s not a late April Fool’s Day. After having punctuated the evenings of football fans on the small skylight, the Swedish giant will know the big screen. This Thursday, the former Paris Saint-Germain striker revealed his participation in the casting of the next film Asterix and Obelix: The Middle Kingdom, produced and directed by Guillaume Canet.

First revealed by our colleagues from BFM TV, Ibra’s participation in the next adventures of the little Gaul was finally confirmed by the main interested party in the process. Like the center-forward of AC Milan, all the actors confirmed their presence and their character in a post published simultaneously on their Instagram account. In the casting, Guillaume Canet, Gilles Lelouch, Marion Cotillard, Vincent Cassel, Angèle, Orelsan, McFly and Carlito or even Manu Payet will accompany Ibrahimovic on the screen.

After Michael Schumacher, Zinédine Zidane, Tony Parker, Jean Todt and Amélie Mauresmo in Asterix and Obelix at the Olympic Games, released in 2008 in theaters, it is therefore the Swedes’ turn to discover the world of the Gauls. We will have to wait until 2022 to see the native of Malmö in action.