After the much-commented support of around sixty artists for “the last sacred monster of cinema”, actress Sophie Marceau once again deplored “the vulgarity and provocation” of the man with whom she has refused to film since 1985.
An “attitude” denounced for more than 35 years. This Wednesday, December 27, actress Sophie Marceau spoke about the political-media controversy at the heart of which Gérard Depardieu has been since the broadcast by Further investigation of images where he multiplies misogynistic and insulting remarks towards women and a little girl.
“Vulgarity and provocation have always been her stock in trade,” commented the 57-year-old actress in the columns of Paris Match.
In 1985, Sophie Marceau and Gérard Depardieu shared the poster for Police. At the end of filming, the 19-year-old actress at the time declared publicly – and repeated it in Le World this summer – that she “couldn’t stand his attitude, which was rude and very inappropriate”. “A lot of people then turned against me by making me seem like a little pest,” she recalled many years later. “And I always refused films with him afterward.”
“Women speak”
This Monday, 56 personalities from the world of culture published an article in Le Figaro to denounce the “lynching” of the “last sacred monster of cinema” – targeted by three complaints for rape and sexual assault, indicted in one of the cases and accused of assault by 13 women in an investigation Mediapart.
“Today, we accuse him of what we praised him for,” reacted Sophie Marceau, who still does not want to “hand him the pole or bury him.”
She added: “Everyone laughed with him, everyone loved him for it, everyone applauded him for who he was. And everyone thought it was normal!”
The forum aroused the indignation of many feminist associations and political figures, seeing it for example as “a spit in the face of victims of violence” who are struggling to make their voices heard.
“Now, women are talking,” welcomed Sophie Marceau. “Whether you are Gérard Depardieu or Maurice Pialat, you don’t treat people like that, period.”