Sandrine Kiberlain talks about the attack she suffered at 17 in the street

Sandrine Kiberlain shared the same experiences as “many women”, including some of the most traumatic… The actress recently opened up about an attack she suffered at the age of 17. And if the latest waves of the #MeToo movement have highlighted the attacks suffered by many women in cinema, the star of Sarah Bernhardt, la divine recalled through this anecdote that this scourge could extend well beyond its environment.

“I was attacked like many young women,” she told Figaro. “It was in the street, I was 17, I got away with it but it traumatized me a lot. A woman can be attacked because she is under the influence but also on a street corner.” The 56-year-old actress then responded to the accusations of rape by actresses Judith Godrèche, Isild Le Besco and Julia Roy at the start of the year against Benoît Jacquot, indicted last July.

Freedom of speech

Sandrine Kiberlain remembers crossing paths with the filmmaker at the time when she was still with her ex-husband, Vincent Lindon. A status which could have protected him from the vices accused of the director. “I filmed with Benoît Jacquot and it went very well,” she recalled. “The people affected by this are right to complain about it. Then again, maybe I got lucky. It turns out that Benoît Jacquot directed me alongside the man with whom I lived, this undoubtedly imposed a distance.”

A few days earlier, Suzanne Lindon's mother remembered an unfortunate episode in her early days when Fanny Ardant came to her rescue. The actress, aged around twenty at the time, shared the stage with her elder in a play. During rehearsals, a German actor, who played his father, allegedly inflicted real slaps on him instead of miming them. An attitude which would have quickly annoyed Fanny Ardant, aware of the embarrassment of her young colleague. “Fanny arrived on the set, she was fed up,” Sandrine Kiberlain told the show Nice gestureon France 2. “She arrived and she told him: “Stop slapping her or I’ll slap you.” The guy looked at us, and then he slapped me again. She came and slapped him. »