Audrey Fleurot told readers of Le Parisien about a particularly violent moment in her career, which she describes as a “mini-rape.” It happened at the beginning of her career, well before the #MeToo movement took hold.
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While Le Parisien organized a question and answer session between the HPI actress and its readers, the question of the impact of the #MeToo movement on practices in cinema and television was raised. Without embellishment, Audrey Fleurot shared a very unpleasant moment at the beginning of her career that marked her forever.
The actress was playing her “first love scene” there, which “did not happen as it was written.” On set, the young woman quickly understood that the change in script was important.
“I said, ‘But am I going to end up with his penis on my buttocks live because nothing was planned?'” she recalls. The response came quickly: “Are you an actress or not? We’re not going to spend the night there.”
“It’s a mini-rape”
Faced with this categorical tone and this idea that an actress must endure everything, she shoots the scene. But the disgust is violent and the words of Audrey Fleurot, when she remembers her state of mind at the time, are too.
“When you come home, you feel like shit, you feel like something has been stolen from you. It’s a mini-rape,” she says, adding in reference to the changes imposed since then by the #MeToo movement in cinema: “methods that, a priori, will no longer exist.”
But in addition to the humiliation of having to accept this scene, when she returns the next day, “hating the director”, she learns that “the scene will not be edited”. “So, there was no need. Just a roundabout way of possessing you”, believes the actress who notes with regret about these abuses of power: “All that was normal”.
“Of course, I should have said no. With MeToo, we experienced something essential,” insists Audrey Fleurot.
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