“Many have been cooled”, Sophie Marceau worried about her career after being humiliated

Gérard Depardieu is at the heart of a media storm and a legal case that continues to gain momentum. Indeed, since women began to file complaints against him for rape and sexual assault six years ago, the actor has been attacked from all sides, and damning testimonies concerning his behavior have accumulated. The distribution of a number of Further investigation dedicated to him, in December on France 2, ignited the powder and the forums dividing the world of cinema between its defenders and other damaged personalities multiplied. So much so that others decided to take the floor in turn to tell behind the scenes of the acting profession.

This is the case of Judith Godreche, which accuses Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon of having abused her when she was only a teenager. Her story, revealed to the general public at the start of the year, aroused so much emotion that the organizers of the 2024 César Awards offered to share it again during the awards ceremony to raise awareness among the young generation of actresses about the actions of those we now call predators.

Sophie Marceau could have ended her career prematurely

Very busy with the play Note by Audrey Schebat, with François Berléand, Sophie Marceau found the time to answer the magazine’s questions French Vogue, of which she is on the cover of the April issue. This is an opportunity for her to recall some memories of her acting career, since her participation in the film The party in 1983, and to express his aspirations while taking a lucid look at the world of French cinema. She was also questioned about the chilling story of Judith Godrèche with whom she had shot the film Tell me about love in 2002. “She’s courageous. She puts her foot down. We have to speak up! She’s right. I didn’t know anything about what happened to her”Sophie Marceau first admitted.

As she had already done previously, the heroine of LOL remembered the filming of the film Police by Maurice Piala (1985), with Gérard Depardieu, to denounce his behavior towards him. “At the time, no one listened to me ! I was the little devil‘the big cunt’ as Maurice Pialat and Gérard Depardieu had nicely said on TV”, she assured. “And it didn’t shock anyone!”, she immediately added. “Lots of directors told me afterwards that, at the time, they thought they would never shoot with me. The agreed word was to say: ‘How she treats her director’. I haven’t been blacklisted but I believe many have been cooled“she assured, suggesting that her career could have been ruined after she had dared to come out of silence at the time to reveal these actions.

Sophie Marceau regrets the silence of others

Sophie Marceau announced that Gérard Depardiau had been “terrible” on the set of Police. “Gérard is tough and I think the system really encouraged him to persevere”estimates the ex-partner of Cyril Ligniac. “He was very badly brought up, badly polite. He didn’t rape me or hit me, but he made very inappropriate gestures. It was only provocative, of the’humiliationof the takeover. And all this under the pretext of laughing…”she also declared, regretting that “the others let him do it”. If “everyone was playing their game” ; Sophie Marceau, she did not “I no longer wanted to tour with him”.

The actress agrees to find “excuses” to Gérard Depardieu, because “he comes from a harsh environment where people are perhaps not as offended by attacks”. “But we cannot stay in the Stone Age. IWe have to stop believing that we are not responsible for what we do because we had a difficult childhood. I come from the city, for me too, life was harder than that of most people who do this job”she concluded, without going into detail.

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