On the set of the show “En Aparté” (Canal +), the actress remembered a violent episode with a director whose name she kept silent.
Monday, March 13, Alexandra Lamy was the guest of the show As an asideon Canal+. The 51-year-old actress came to promote her new film, The Chamber of Wondersdirected by Lisa Azuelos, indicate our colleagues from Tele-Leisure. She will notably give the reply to comedian Muriel Robin, who will play his mother in the new feature film. Thursday March 9, Alexandra Lamy also covered her colleague at It’s up to you (France 5). Received by Nathalie Lévy on the set ofAs an aside, Alexandra Lamy returned to a brutal episode with a director on a film set.
“It was very aggressive”, she describes. One morning, a director whose name she did not reveal grabs her armit “does not support”. Suddenly, the gesture shocks her: “I was like, ‘Wow'”, she recalls. And the justification did not convince her: “He was telling me : ‘As you had a bit of a dramatic scene, I thought that maybe it would help you.’ I said to him: ‘There, it’s worse, what you tell me. I’m an actress, no need to slap me to cry. Otherwise, you take anybody on the street and you’re gonna do it'”she continues.
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Other actresses struggling with directors
Alexandra Lamy is not the only one to have complained about the inappropriate, even violent, behavior of a director in full work. In September 2020, Karin Viard confided to the media Konbini have been “very badly treated” on the set of Victims of Patrick Grandperret, when she was only 14 years old. To support this difficult filming, she would even have started drinking “to try to [s’alléger]”. across the Atlantic, actress Sarah Michelle Gellar denounced in December 2022 “the toxic masculine environment” filming of the series buffy the vampire slayer, where she played the main role. She had imitated his former playing partner, Charisma Carpenterwho had criticized the behavior of Joss Whedon, creator of the supernatural series almost a year earlier.