A trying speech. Juliette Binoche was invited to the set of Click this Tuesday, April 30. The French actress spoke about the deviant behavior she had to endure when she started in the cinema, before bursting into tears.
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Women’s voices are being freed in the world of cinema. In the columns of the newspaper Release this Sunday, April 28, Juliette Binoche returned to the shocking requests she received from directors in the 80s and even the aggression of one of them towards her. In particular, she details the process of a casting for a project by director Jean-Luc Godard. “I arrive, Jean-Luc gives me instructions. Undress, walk around a table naked while reading a poem while combing my hair while he films.” She also confesses to having witnessed, without understanding it at first, the rape of an extra on the set of children of the century, perpetrated by an actor who has since died.
Juliette Binoche bursts into tears while talking about the support given to her by director Christophe Honoré
A shocking testimony on which she agreed to return on the set of Click. Mouloud Achour, visibly touched by his poignant story, asked him to comment on some of these highlights. “Practically all castings, there was not always but often this request, so I didn’t take it personally”, she explained about the nudity. She also confided that she was the victim of touching by a schoolteacher when she was seven years old. The host asked her if she had received support from personalities from the world of cinema after her speech. “Especially from male directors and Claire Denis“, she reacted. “Christophe Honore told me something simple but that really made me feel good. He told me : ‘But you shouldn’t have gone through that'”she confided. “But that’s what we all think!” responded his interlocutor. Words which visibly touched Juliette Binoche, who burst into tears at their mention.
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The actress reveals how these ordeals changed her
The actress spoke again to reveal what these difficult times had changed in her. “At the same time, I think it made me stronger, because it makes me more courageous. It makes me more human. When we experience suffering, pain or difficulties, it certainly opens up faults in ourselves, because it breaks, it betrays, it mistreats, but at the same time there is something that makes us know what it was to suffer, we understand each other better, so we are more able to have one. a kind of porosity, of compassion. It allows us to be more human, because we have to break down so much pride or everything that makes us a little rigid. she testified.
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