She welcomes us in her socks to her new home, a modern and functional apartment on 15e district of Paris. While we in turn take off our shoes which join other pairs in the entrance, she apologizes for the ” mess “. We’ve seen worse: barely two or three clothes lying around on a chair, a school notebook and manga forgotten on the coffee table where a bottle of organic white wine and a bowl filled with slices of sausage sit enthroned. Andréa Bescond, 43-year-old actress, author and director, separated in October 2022 from her companion, Eric Métayer. He is also the father of her two children aged 10 and 12 and the artistic partner with whom she produced the piece. Ticklesin 2016, which became a film two years later, which recounts his abused childhood, and When you are oldertheir delicate, moving and funny new feature film about old age, which will be released on April 26th. Since their breakup, she has been living with Damien, her ” best friend “, met at the conservatory, his “twin”, born the same day and the same year as her. She benefits from joint custody for her children and seems fulfilled like never before, blonde, smiling and bright, dressed all in black, classic and rock at the same time.
Black is precisely the color she chose for the background of her daily posts on instagram, in which she denounces in white letters sexual violence through specific cases drawn from the regional press. Cries of anger, factual and accusatory, which leave hardly indifferent. An immediately identifiable tone, the hard-hitting use of “you” to designate a rapist, a puncher, a murderer, a stalker, an institution, the French state. Everyone takes it for their rank: the police, justice, Gérard Depardieu, PPDA, Macron and his ministers, Dupond-Moretti and Darmanin in the lead. Since she launched into these militant posts (in October, definitely a month of big decisions), her account has gone from 12,000 to more than 120,000 subscribers. That is to say if his messages hit the bull’s eye.
The goal of this committed activist: to recall the reality of the figures, to repeat relentlessly what we do not want to know, the thousands of women attacked, beaten, raped, destroyed, in danger, children victims of sexual abuse, barbarism daily against which, she believes, the public authorities do not do much behind big speeches. “It’s not moving fast enough” she insists, before listing the figures she knows by heart: a woman killed every two days, 80% of complaints for sexual violence closed without further action, an attempted rape every seven minutes, 18 children raped every hour (a hard-to-verify estimate from the Traumatic Memory and Victimology association, which is nevertheless widely used). However, she wanted to believe in the good faith of politicians, met all the ministers concerned and even posed, in September 2020, on the cover ofShe with the first lady, Brigitte Macron. She does not regret: “For the first time, pedocrime made the front page of this magazine. Brigitte Macron is a good person, even if there was obviously a little instrumentalization in there and not enough reactions behind. » No regrets, but we won’t take it back, she explains, sitting in a brown sofa above which was pinned a reproduction of a painting by the Japanese painter Hokusai representing a giant wave.
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