Actress Sophie Marceau, who had already described Gérard Depardieu as a “predator”, put it bluntly on Thursday that the holy monster of French cinema always dealt with “vulgarity and provocation” and sometimes attacked “little assistants” during filming have .
He does not attack the great actresses, but the little assistants, said the popular actress, who is one of the few French actresses to have appeared in the world of James Bond films, in an interview published on Thursday in the magazine Paris Match .
Vulgarity and provocation have always been his métier, remembers Sophie Marceau, who in her youth shared the poster with the actor in Maurice Pialat's film Police (1985).
Back in 2015, Sophie Marceau called Gérard Depardieu a predator, a remark that was hardly taken up at the time.
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French actor Gérard Depardieu (archive photo)
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Isabelle Carré denounces Gérard Depardieu's flattery
Isn't it surprising that you have to wait fifty years to tell an actor that his behavior towards assistants, dressers and his partners is unacceptable, even under the guise of being silly? asked French actress Isabelle Carré in Elle magazine on Wednesday.
Gérard Depardieu has been in turmoil since the broadcast of a complément d'investigation report on the public channel France 2 at the beginning of December, in which we see him multiplying misogynistic insults and statements of a sexual nature.
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French actress Isabelle Carré (archive photo)
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The report also touched on his rape accusation in 2020 after an actress in her 20s, Charlotte Arnould, made a complaint. He rejects these allegations.
Gérard Depardieu, 75, is also the target of a sexual assault complaint filed by the French actress Hélène Darras on a priori prescriptive grounds, as well as another in Spain by the journalist Ruth Baza, who accused him of rape in 1995.
A manhunt, says Emmanuel Macron
In a television interview on December 20, French President Emmanuel Macron denounced a manhunt against Gérard Depardieu. He made France, our great authors, our great characters known throughout the world. […] He made France proud, he explained, and has since faced criticism from feminist associations.
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French President Emmanuel Macron (file photo)
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A group advocating for the actor also published a column on Tuesday denouncing a lynching, signed by about sixty cultural figures, including director Bertrand Blier; actresses Carole Bouquet, Nathalie Baye and Charlotte Rampling; Actors Jacques Weber, Pierre Richard and Gérard Darmon as well as musical personalities Roberto Alagna, Carla Bruni and Jacques Dutronc.