PARIS, Aug 17 (Reuters) - French actor Gerard Depardieu outraged  fellow passengers by urinating in the aisle of an Air France flight as  it prepared to take off on Tuesday, forcing the plane to turn back to  its parking spot.
A passenger on the flight said Depardieu, 62,  the star of movies such as "Jean de Florette" and "Green Card," appeared  to be drunk and insisted he be allowed to use the bathroom during  takeoff, when passengers must remain seated.
When he was asked by a  hostess to return to his seat, Depardieu
urinated in the aisle, the  passenger told French radio station Europe 1 on Wednesday.
"You  could see that he had been drinking, but there were no comments. The  hostess was shocked but there was no argument, nothing," said the  passenger.
"I was outraged. When you are an actor, you are not  like other people, you do not have to abide by the rules. He could have  waited, all the same."
A spokesperson for national carrier Air France confirmed the passenger's version of events.
"I confirm the fact that he (Depardieu) did indeed urinate in the plane," the spokesperson said.
Depardieu's agents were on vacation and his PR office had no comment to make.
The  evening flight AF5010 operated by CityJet, a subsidiary of Air France,  was forced to return to the terminal where a team boarded the plane to  clean the carpet.
A spokesperson for CityJet said a passenger was  escorted from the plane and the flight resumed after a delay of an hour  and 15 minutes. He declined to confirm the passenger's identity.
Depardieu  is one of France's best known actors internationally with more than 100  films under his belt, including the "Asterix" series.
He was awarded  a Cesar -- the French equivalent of an Oscar -- for best actor for his  interpretation of the large-nosed romantic Cyrano de Bergerac in the  1990 movie of the same name.  (Reporting by Cyril Altmeyer and Daniel  Flynn, editing by Mike Collett-White)
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