Why Sara Forestier agreed to return to cinema, years after a trauma on set

MOVIE THEATER – ” I kept making films pretending it was okay, but it wasn't okay. » These words are those of the actress Sara Forestier who, on the set of Daily Monday November 4, returned to the reasons for his withdrawal for several years from French cinema.

« I needed to take a few years to rebuild myself », she begins by telling host Yann Barthès. Before adding: “ I was hit by an actor on the set of a film. I had been slapped. I had left the film. »

Sara Forestier refers here to a violent altercation that occurred during the filming of the film Good man by Marion Vernoux, in April 2017. At that time, the celebrity press reported that the actress was allegedly hit in the face by Nicolas Duvauchelle after she called him ” waste of French cinema.

She said, this Monday, that she experienced this as a “ trauma » and filed a complaint. Then, she took the time to recover away from the sets, because “ trauma is not something that is taken into account in cinema ». « We often joke about damaged women saying that they are crazy. […] No, we're just damaged », specifies Sara Forestier.

Sara Forestier thanks Camille Cottin and India Hair

« Being traumatized means not sleeping, having suicidal thoughtsshe continues. Who is going to look at you and say it's OK? You have the right to have been damaged and not to lock yourself in a vicious circle that judges you. »

Today, she says she has “so good to wait”. “This shoot liberated me”she explains about the film Three friends by Emmanuel Mouret, which is released in theaters on Wednesday November 6. She thanks the director’s first assistant and “ the kindness of [ses] partners », the actresses Camille Cottin and India Hair, present alongside him on the set of Daily.

In Three friendsSara Forestier and the two actresses play – as the title foreshadows – three great friends, whose intertwined sentimental stories will be turned upside down after the disappearance of the partner of one of them. The film marks the return of the 38-year-old actress, three years after her last appearance in Playlist by Nine Antico.

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