The French parliamentarians have criticized the “endemic” abuse in the entertainment sector after an investigation of months on the sexual violence that saw the stars and other actors reveal cases of harassment and assault.
The investigation, directed by Deputy Sandrine Rousseau, was stimulated by accusations of Judith Godreche, who accused two French directors of abusing her when she was a teenager.
In a final condemnatory report, seen by AFP before its launch on Wednesday, the investigation accused the entertainment sector of being a “talent grinding machine” and made 86 recommendations to better protect the actors and the Hildr in the set.
“Moral, sexist and sexual violence in the cultural sector is systemic, endemic and persistent,” reads Rousseau’s conclusion, who has supervised six months of audiences that saw the testimony of 350 people in the film, theater and television sectors.
The report follows the trial of sexual aggression last month of the actor Gerard Depardieu, who is the highest profile figure to face criminal accusations after the #MeToo movement that gave women to speak against violence.
#Metoo was publicly resisted by some in the French entertainment sector when it first emerged in 2017, including actress Catherine Deneuve, who saw it an American puritan import that encouraged the transmission of accusations without foundation.
Depardieu, who faces accusations of women around a boxes, was backed by 60 cinema and art figures on a request of 2023, while President Emmanuel Macron called him an “imposing actor” that “makes France feel proud.”
Depardieu denies the accusations and said in his opinion that he “worshiped” women and was not a “Groper.” A verdict must occur on May 13.
The report questions the prevailing vision in France that the abusive behavior of the main cultural figures can be excused in the name of art.
“The” cultural exception “, but at what price?” ask.
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“In our country, there is a cult of talent and creative genius,” Erwan Balaanant, a centrist deputy of the commission, told AFP.
Some of France’s main film stars agreed to testify parliamentary research, including Juliette Binoche, Jean Dujardin and Pierre Niney, but generally behind closed doors and, sometimes, with the condition that their comments were not made public.
Some of the strongest testimonies came from Godreche, 53, who criticized the “impunity” in the film industry and the “inaction” of their main lights.
“There is not one person from my past with a paper established in the world of cinema, and therefore, in power positions … that has written to me as since I spoke,” said the actress who appeared in The Spanish apartment” The man in the iron maskand Potiichethat presented Depardieu.
The companion actress Sara Forsier described in November how she had repeatedly said “not” the directors who wanted to sleep with her and threatened to remove the roles if she refused.
“Until the day I said ‘not’ too many times, and I paid the price,” he said, telling how he had to leave a filming in 2017 after he was supposedly slapped by an actor, later identified as Nicolas Duvauchelle.
Jean Dujardin, Oscar winner in 2012 for The artistHe admitted that some male actors could have denounced abuse in the past, but that attitudes were changing.
“We don’t see everything, and maybe we don’t want to see,” said Dujardin, 52, according to a transcription published last month.
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He added that “we no longer say what we used to say 10 or 15 years ago, and won the same things in 10 years either … I feel that sexist reactions and clumsy comments are gradual disappeared.”
In mid -March, celebrity veteran Dominique Besnehard challenges some of the actresses’ testimonies about sexual abuse, which leads to a clash with Rousseau who accused him of making “derogatory comments.”
“When I was an agent, I saw some actresses cross the line a little. You don’t go to a hotel with a director,” said Berrethard.
Gilles Lellouche, a widely admired French star that Obelix expresses in the Asterix Animated films reported an experience that involved a director who tried to “seduce him.”
“I didn’t feel violently attacked, they were things like my hands under my shirt. If I had done the same to a woman, I wouldn’t do it well,” he said.
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