The actress claimed in November to have been slapped by an actor before the National Assembly’s commission of inquiry into violence in the cultural world.
The double Caesarized actress Sara Forestier filed a complaint against the actor Nicolas Duvauchelle for a slap on a set in 2017. The information was revealed by Mediapart and confirmed by the Paris prosecutor’s office this Wednesday, December 4, who opened an investigation. The actor disputes the actress’s statements. On November 7, before the commission of inquiry of the National Assembly relating to violence in the cultural world, Sara Forestier denounced a “slap” coming from an actor.
In a video interview at Mediapart broadcast on Tuesday December 3, the actress directly implicated Nicolas Duvauchelle, explaining that after a dispute over a “trifle” at the start of filming Good man, in 2017, the actor allegedly got angry and slapped her in front of witnesses. “I know what I went through. […] He slaps me, I say in front of everyone: “He slapped me, you take me immediately to the police station”», reports the actress, who specifies having filed a complaint for this violence.
Requested, the Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed this Wednesday “that a complaint was filed on March 31, 2023 by Sara Forestier with the Privas public prosecutor’s office [en Ardèche, ndlr], which relinquished responsibility for that of Paris on August 30, 2024, after several failings by the complainant, from whom details had been requested. “She denounced a slap and insults on a shoot which had taken place approximately six years previously (without date, location, witness or marital nature specified). The Paris public prosecutor’s office has referred further investigations to the 11th arrondissement police station. it is further clarified.
Complaints from a former partner
“Moreover, complaints of violence or threats filed by one of his former companions [visant Nicolas Duvauchelle] were closed on the grounds that no offense was sufficiently serious, in May 2016, May 2019, July 2021″, also adds the public prosecutor.
In messages on “mythomaniac” and of “false victim”. “I’m straight in my boots, I never slapped her”, he said, adding that he had “of witnesses” in support. “I have behaved in the most respectful way on set for over twenty-five years,” he also said.
Faced with these messages, Sara Forestier, who received the César for Most Promising Actress in 2005 for Dodge by Abdellatif Kechiche and the César for best actress in 2011 for people’s names of Michel Leclerc, indicated to Mediapart that she intended to file a complaint this week for defamation.
