(CNN) -- He puts the gun to the woman's head, pulls the trigger and watches as her body hits the floor. A World Cup-winning footballer with France and a lauded defender, Frank Leboeuf is now executing Nazi collaborators. "It's the first time I've killed anybody," Leboeuf reveals to CNN, reflecting on a dramatic career switch -- and also recent reversal in his new life as an actor. "It's a change as I've been killed a couple of times. Thankfully, Leboeuf's victim is fictional and, rather than a new life as his character Marcel Deville, a member of the French resistance, the former Chelsea defender is reflecting on a new career on the silver screen in the movie Allies.
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Frank Leboeuf has gone from delivering passes to delivering lines
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Now a stage and movie actor, ex-France defender's latest role is to fight the Nazis
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He admits to a dual passion for both movies and football growing up in a French village
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Still an avid Chelsea fan, he tips the London club to win the Premier League
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"I loved watching plays as well but there wasn't much chance to pursue that in a small @placeholder village but my father created a football academy in our village and that was it."