Sophie Marceau once again denounces the behavior of Gérard Depardieu

The actress has refused to film with him since their collaboration on Police in 1985.

Targeted by several complaints of rape and sexual assault, Gérard Depardieu is particularly at the heart of a heated media controversy since the broadcast at the beginning of December of a program Additional Investigation about her. Images show him engaging in obscene behavior and comments towards young Korean girls, including a minor.

Since this broadcast, which has raised numerous criticisms against the actor, around fifty personalities from the world of cinema and culture have defended him in an article published in the Figaro.

But not everyone is in favor of this support and is making their voices heard to denounce the behavior of the star of Cyrano de Bergerac. After Anouk Grinbergit’s the turn of Sophie Marceau to express themselves again in Paris Match : “Vulgarity and provocation have always been his stock in trade” she declares. His latest collaboration with Depardieu goes back to the movie Police of Maurice Pialatreleased in 1985.

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Since this shoot, when she was 19 years old, she has categorically refused all projects involving the actor. She describes her attitude on this project as “rude and very inappropriate”. She adds, regarding the fact that she had denounced his behavior as soon as the film was released, well before #MeToo : “Many people then turned against me, making me look like a little pest. And I always refused films with him afterwards.”

Maurice Pialat was also known to be tyrannical on his sets, which she does not fail to point out: “Whether you’re Gérard Depardieu or Maurice Pialat, you don’t treat people like that, period.”

She concludes by confirming the statements of the women who spoke on Gérard Depardieu and on the omerta that surrounded her for years: “Today, he is accused of what he was praised for. Everyone laughed with him, everyone loved him for it, everyone applauded him for who he was. And everyone found it normal. Now women are speaking.”

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