Anna Mouglalis comes out of the silence. The actress testified Tuesday against Gérard Miller before the Commission of Inquiry into Violence committed in the artistic and media sectors. She returned to alleged facts dating from 1997, a time when she was just starting out in comedy and was offered her first role in the cinema.
The 46-year-old actress had been sent by production to the home of the 76-year-old psychoanalyst, who worked as a screenwriter on this project. The filmmaker then showed the young woman his “home cinema”, as she recounts in a video relayed by BFMTV. “It’s normal to have confidence when you are sent by production to a screenwriter and you want to act in a film,” Anna Mouglalis first noted before the Commission.
“I didn’t talk about it”
However, Gérard Miller’s attitude then became worrying. “There, he offers me a hypnosis session, which I refuse […] And then I find the guy frankly not likeable,” recalled Anna Mouglalis. “But he starts to tense up, become a little aggressive and say to me: ‘Oh well, what are we going to do? What should we do about this scenario?’ » The star of Baron Noire would nevertheless not have given in, despite the screenwriter’s attempts at intimidation. “I tell him we don’t have to do anything at all. Considering how it’s gone, it’s not worth it,” she said. “To which he replied that he would therefore remove the lines from my character and give them to other actresses. I said to him: “So much the better.”
Anna Mouglalis, however, regrets not having reported the incident to other members of the production team, simply considering the filmmaker as an “asshole”. “I didn’t tell the director or the producer, I should have,” she admitted. Especially since her experience would have been repeated with other young actresses “around 18 and 20 years old” on the set. “There are two young women, who, quite spontaneously since they realized that they had experienced the same thing, spoke openly in front of us,” she recalled. “They experienced the hypnosis session and they experienced the attacks.”
A magazine investigation Elle in January relayed the testimonies of several dozen women accusing Gérard Miller of rape and sexual assault, notably “under hypnosis”. Allegations that the psychoanalyst denied. But several complaints against him followed, pushing the Paris prosecutor’s office to open an investigation.
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