After having been godmother of the Molière Festival where, on the stage of the Théâtre de Verdure, she performed, with Judith Henry I wouldn’t have gotten there if…Julie Gayet returned to Pézenas to meet students from the Charles-Marie de la Condamine and Jean-Moulin high schools.
She was accompanied by Mathieu Busson with whom she made the TV film Olympe, une femme dans la Révolution which France Télévision should broadcast as part of International Women’s Day between February and March 2025.
During discussions with the high school students, Julie Gayet and Mathieu Busson were able to highlight the parity and ecology objectives that they set to build and produce this TV film as well as the ideal framework that the Region had offered for this filming. since it was entirely carried out there.
Obviously, the values and struggles embodied by Olympe de Gouges, who was born in Montauban, were also part of the discussion between the students and the two guests of the day. Feminism, the place of women in society, equality and freedoms were well on the agenda of high school issues, in particular those of the Lycée Charles-Marie de la Condamine which work around the journey of these women whose statues emerged from the water during the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games.
Quite frankly, the professions of cinema, television and theater were also the subject of this meeting, made possible thanks to a partnership between Occitanie Films and the City of Pézenas, which always strives to offer times dedicated to young and school audiences as part of the municipality’s cultural programming.
Before joining the Le Molière cinema, Julie Gayet and Mathieu Busson were welcomed at the town hall by Mayor Armand Rivière, who took the opportunity to present them The Bearded Man of the Squarean early work by Boby Lapointe which confirms his pioneering side, and which, in 1952, questioned many current issues, notably couples and gender.
Walking through the city center of Pézenas, Julie Gayet was able to observe, with emotion, that the plaques of her fingerprints, taken in 2022, had been affixed to the Cours Jean-Jaurès alongside those of numerous actresses and numerous actors who have a common history with Pézenas and its cultural vocation.
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