Audrey Fleurot, who has become the French’s favorite actress since she played Morgane in HPI, confides in the subject of a sex scene that she saw herself, more or less forced to film against her will, while she was a young actress.
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On May 16, Audrey Fleurot returns to the small screens in the role of Morgane Alvaro, the cleaning lady with high intellectual potential – HPI, from which the title of the series is taken – who has become a consultant for the DIPJ of Lille. On the occasion of the upcoming broadcast of the fourth – and potentially penultimate – season of the TF1 series, the 46-year-old actress gave an interview to our colleagues at Paris Match for their anniversary issue which celebrates the 75th anniversary of the magazine – released this Thursday, April 25. The mother of Lou, aged 7, looked back on her notoriety, her family life and her professional career, in particular on this time when she was confronted with the abuse of power by a director.
“I felt like something was being stolen from me“: Audrey Fleurot looks back on the abuse of power of a director
“I am lucky not to have been the victim of aggression within my profession, but I have been confronted, like everyone else, with abuse of power or challenges to my professionalism. When you are a young actress, you don’t really know what you are entitled, or not, to ask of yourself. Once I felt like something was being stolen from me and I swore to myself it wouldn’t happen to me again“, explains Audrey Fleurot, questioned about the Me Too movement, the cause of which is “obviously at heart“. Revealed as the French’s favorite actress by a Paris Match-Ifop survey last year, the actress agreed to say more about the situation mentioned earlier.
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“Are you an actress or are you not an actress?“: the derogatory remark of a director
“A director had not explained to me the nature of a sequence, and I realized at the last moment that it was abouta sex scene. Faced with my reluctance, he asked me: ‘Are you an actress or are you not an actress?’ The costume designers, who were not aware either, had not planned anything to make me more ‘comfortable’ during the scene. I was at the wall, with no one to help me. I folded, but I was in good shape when I got home“, remembers Audrey Fleurot. A situation that she did not let pass: “The next day, I explained myself to the director… This balance of power is not specific to our profession: almost all women have been confronted, one day or another, with this type of situation.“. And to conclude, satisfied: “The freedom of speech today allows young people to decide where they want to set the limits“.
