Actress Sara Forestier made her comeback a few weeks ago in theaters, in Emmanuel Mouret's film entitled Three friends. At the beginning of November, the actress The Dodge was interviewed to discuss violence on film sets. She was invited to the set of Médiapart this Tuesday, December 3 in order to return to the affair of the slap which opposed her to Nicolas Duvauchelle on the set of the film Good man by Marion Vernoux.
Isabelle Adjani, victim of a slap on the stage…
The journalists were keen to return to the violence against women in the industry, as well as the speaking of Isabelle Adjani in The Sunday Journalwhere she evokes violence in cinema.
“In France, there are the three Gs: Gallantry, ribaldness, and rudeness. Sliding from one to the other to the point of violence under the pretext of the game of seduction is one of the weapons in the defense arsenal of predators and harassers. (…) In production houses, or among decision-makers, I have often heard: 'All sluts, all whores anyway, these actresses!” she expressed, for example, in this forum. She also spoke to our colleagues about Madame Figaro of a slap administered to her during a play, where she was forced to leave the stage.
…Sara Forestier breaks down when talking about this affair
The director of M wanted to come back to this speech.
“The interview with Isabelle Adjani was the trigger for me. I was in a period where I was sinking, and suddenly I see that the same thing happened to him. She's in a play, she gets slapped and she says she had to stop the play and these are her words, 'everyone fell on me at the time', as if it It was my fault, but what actually? These people have no humanity… What’s the big deal actually…” she confided, her throat tight with emotion before continuing: “We get hit and then behind, we still have to swallow our dignity, that's what's happening… When I read Adjani's testimony, I understand that in fact, I am not the only one to whom it is arrived. And suddenly, I think of the sketches about Adjani that are on, where we say 'I'm not crazy, you know' (…) That's the reputation we give to women who resist: crazy, unmanageable. These are words where everything can be encompassed… Give precise facts and therefore, it is the after-sales service of the aggressors“, she confided.
