Brigitte Bardot reveals her memories of filming to us. The French icon, like an avant-garde rebel, evokes with a touch of nostalgia a time when the atmosphere was “family” on the sets and where even the “hands on the buttocks” had their place, as long as there was have consent.
Brigitte Bardot, whose health is not very good at present, the flamboyant star of the 1960s, had unwittingly painted the portrait of a emancipated woman which was sometimes shocking, even on the Croisette. From the top of his 88 years oldshe takes a sparkling look at the image that the French have attributed to her “I never thought for a moment of embodying the women’s liberation movement […] I wanted to be myself“ she reveals to us in an interview with Point this Thursday, August 17.
However, this image of an independent woman has earned her its share of criticism and hatred. At the height of her glory, Brigitte Bardot suffered harsh criticism and insults. The animal protector states that “Despite the successes that were linked to the cinema, everything has not always been easy for me, in my daily life. My freedom has sometimes cost me dearly […] hunted down, insulted, dragged through the mud because of my way of life. I often met women in the street who called me a bitch.” Indeed, in the Brigitte Bardot years, the woman’s body did not really belong to her, as Sophie Marceau also recalls in this interview.
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Bardot: emblem of an era breaking all codes!
Brigitte Bardot evokes with a touch of humor the sometimes inappropriate gestures of some on the trays:”During filming, I loved having their hands put on my buttocks when I passed. It was the specialty of the machinists, very nice people, all great friends”, she says. A touch of charm and casualness like the legendary Brigitte Bardot, that continues to shock but also inspireyears after its peak.
So she remembers the atmospheres “free, family” who ruled the film sets. Brigitte Bardot reveals that she has never been a victim of sexual assault during her acting career: “I have never been raped, never… Or else I consented!”. She then confidently states: “I have known some who, to get a role, did not say no to the producer. It was their problem. It didn’t concern me.” That is what is said, without a filter, whether you like it or not. Bardot true to herself.
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