An essential face of French cinema for many years, Juliette Binoche is one of the French actresses who have managed to export themselves internationally, and more particularly to Hollywood. However, the actress’s journey was not a long, quiet river. Sunday April 28, 2024, Juliette Binoche revealed in the columns of Release the shocking requests she received from certain directors during the 80s. “I’m coming, Jean-Luc [Godard, ndlr] gives me instructions. Undress, walk around a table naked while reading a poem while combing my hair while he films”, notably indicated the actress. Passing on the set of the show Clickpresented by Mouloud Achour Thursday May 2, 2024 on Canal+, Juliette Binoche also revealed having been THE witness to the rape of an extra by an actor. The events allegedly took place on the set of the film called The Children of the Century, which was released in cinemas in 1999.
Juliette Binoche: “We really don’t want this reality to be true”
“I was wondering during the whole filming, because I was a little far away, but I was observing something that was not normal. And I only realized it afterwards. I said to myself: ‘That’s actually obvious.'”first underlined Juliette Binoche. “I don’t know if others saw it, I was furious, I was super embarrassed, I was angry, I didn’t ask more questions. We really don’t want this reality is true, that there is a part of us that puts it a little to the side, because it’s too disgusting“, then added the actress. The latter also specified that the actor at the origin of this rape was now deceased. Faced with Mouloud Achour, Juliette Binoche also revealed that she was asked to get naked on “practically all castings”. “There was not always but often this request, so I did not take it personally”however, clarified the actress, who was the victim of touching by a schoolteacher when she was only seven years old.