Sara Forestier looks back on her altercation with Nicolas Duvauchelle on set

She had been discreet for three years. Sara Forester reappeared this Monday, November 4, 2024 on the set of “Quotidien” alongside Camille Cottin and India Hair to promote Three friendsthe new feature film by Emmanuel Mouret (Mademoiselle de Joncquières). Questioned by Yann Barthès about this media absence, the actress, with two Césars under her belt, confides that she has not missed cinema at all. “Already because there is more to life than professional life», she begins. “I needed to take a few years to rebuild myself“, she continues.

In question? An incident that occurred on the set of a film that she prefers not to mention. “I had been hit and slapped by an actor. And I left the film. (…) I went to the police station and filed a complaint», she recalls before deploring the lack of attention around women's trauma. “Trauma is not taken into account in cinema. We often joke about damaged women saying that they are crazy.“, she believes before indicating that her trauma resulted in insomnia and “thoughts of suicide».

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«So you have to take the time to refocus on yourself, find pleasure again and I really waited to find the project with people who were caring.», she continues with a broad smile. “And I did so well to wait. I came across an extraordinary director, an incredible first assistant who understood that I was traumatized. This is really the way we should make cinema. I rediscovered the pleasures I had at the very beginning“, she rejoices. And to admit that things are changing. “It reconciled me with the sets while I continued to make films pretending that things were going well but in fact, they weren't going well and this shoot freed me».

Sara Forestier is actually referring to the filming of the film Good man by Marion Vernoux in April 2017. At the time, the celebrity press mentioned an altercation with Nicolas Duvauchelle after the actress was late. “Drunk with rage, she began to threaten Nicolas, calling him all the names, including “waste of French cinema” before giving him a violent slap.», reported Here is. Fired shortly after, she was replaced by Ana Girardot in the role. “I didn't get fired.”she insisted on correcting, already on the set of “Quotidien” the following October. And to suggest a complicated pregnancy, which explained the incident. “I had to take care of myself otherwise I was risking my motherhood and I was taking the risk of not having children naturally.“, she emphasized without saying more.