Invited on the set of the show “Quelle époque!”, broadcast on Saturday September 16, 2023 on France 2, Muriel Robin looked into the subject of homophobia in the world of the seventh art.
A moving speech. Theater star and figure of French cinema, Muriel Robin is alsoi a committed woman. Impossible not to mention her moving interpretation of Jacqueline Sauvage on the small screen, in the TF1 TV filmJacqueline Sauvage: it was him or me. “I“I wanted to take on the fight of self-defense”, she then confided to the JDD. The one who married Anne Le Nen also raised fist against homophobia. A subject that she raised on the France 2 talk showWhat an era!, Saturday September 16, 2023. At Léa Salamé’s microphone, the 68-year-old comedian spoke of the distrust of the world of cinema towards homosexual people. “I am the only actress in the world to come out as gay”, she lamented. And to add: “Why are the actors all silent? I know gay French actors, (…) and we will never know that they are gay.”
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The one on display inRabbita new play in which she plays opposite Pierre Arditi, then drew up a sad observation : “There are no gay actors who have a great career.” During her career, Muriel Robin has also suffered from his sexual orientation for a long time assumed, as she indicated to our colleagues: “ I cried, every day, with all the tears in my body. I’m fine, it’s over, it’s filed.” Memories which pushed her to warn the next generation by addressing young homosexual actors: “There’s no point in them doing this job, they won’t work, they won’t make films.” An analysis which visibly surprised half of Raphaël Glucksmann: “Are you serious here? Do you tell 20-year-olds ‘if you’re gay, don’t do this job’? And the person concerned immediately bounced back:“I say, ‘Position yourself.’ So that they don’t experience what I experienced…”
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“In this job, you need to be wanted”
For Murielle Robin, views on homosexual actors are unfortunately not about to change. “In this job, you need to be wanted”, she assured on the set ofWhat a time! And to develop his words: “The young girl sticks the actor’s photo in her room; the young man, that of the actress. There is something of the order of desire, sexual. When you are homosexual, you are not desirable, you are not penetrable. And when you can’t penetrate cinema, you’re worthless.”
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