“I took this time, I filed a complaint”, Sara Forestier returns to her withdrawal from cinema

Slapped during a filming in 2021, Sara Forestier decided to leave the world of cinema. Back in the movie Three friends by Emmanuel Mouret, she explains on the set of Daily needing to take this break.

A reconstruction that took time. This Monday, November 4, Yann Barthès received on the set of Daily the actresses of the film Three friendsin theaters on November 6. In this feature film by Emmanuel Mouret, Camille Cottin, India Hair and Sara Forestier play Alice, Joan and Rebecca, three women who have three different visions of love. A choice casting for this film which marks the return of Sara Forestier to the world of cinema after a few years of absence. In 2021, the actress had indeed revealed in Paris Match having been slapped four years earlier on the set of the film Good man by Nicolas Duvauchelle, leading to his withdrawal from the world of cinema.

“I needed to take a few years to rebuild myself because I was hit by an actor […]. We talk very little about it but there is everything afterwards, where you have to rebuild yourself, so I took this time”she confided to Yann Barthès on the set of Daily this Monday, November 4. Sara Forestier then explains that “trauma involves things” that she herself experienced during these years of reconstruction. “Not sleeping, having suicidal thoughts, that makes you damaged”she clarified, on the verge of tears.

Sara Forestier “waited for the right project” to return to cinema

Remembering a previous interview given on the set of Daily after his interview with Paris Matchthe actress goes on to explain that often, “damaged women, we like to say that they are crazy”. “In fact, no, we are just damaged, and we have to take the time to rebuild ourselves, to refocus on ourselves, to find pleasure again”clarified Sara Forestier. And to add: “I really expected to find the project with caring people.” Ce “project with caring people”it is the film Trois amis by Emmanuel Mouret, in which the actress regrets neither the participation nor the wait for him to introduce himself to her. “I did well to wait”she assured. And to conclude: “This is the way we should make cinema.”