In her second novel "Du Côté des Indiens", the author Isabelle Carré recounts "the improbable friendship" between a woman, Muriel, and a young boy, Ziad.

His character of Muriel suffers sexual assault in the film industry.

She explains to Anne Roumanoff's microphone that she relied on what she experienced, but also saw and heard in her life as an actress.

INTERVIEW

Isabelle Carré, who returns to the theater on September 22 alongside Bernard Campan in the play 

La Dégustation, 

published in the summer of 2020 

Du Côté des Indiens, 

her second novel (Grasset editions).

She explained in the show

It feels good

how she wrote the scenes of sexual assault that Muriel, her main character, lives.

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Two or three experiences 

In Du

 Côté des Indiens

, actress Isabelle Carré recounts the "improbable friendship" between a woman, Muriel and a young boy, Ziad.

Muriel is an actress, who became a film scribe after a sexual assault at the hands of a director.

A forced kiss that the author wrote based on her personal experience.

"This story is partly autobiographical. It is a mixture of two or three experiences that I have had", reveals Isabelle Carré.

"I wanted to torpedo an idea: no, actresses don't sleep to have roles. It happens afterwards, when you're employed, on set, at times when you can feel vulnerable."

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Helping young women

The author and actress explains that she was also inspired by the experiences of other actresses when writing scenes of abuse.

"You can imagine in 32 years of career all that I could hear from each other. And what I could see, too. Muriel is a bit of all that. It's not just one only story, ”she explains. 

"I wanted to deal with consent in this way, because I said to myself that I could make a contribution to the #MeToo movement", adds Isabelle Carré.

"And help young women, not only on a movie set, but also in a company internship, a first job etc., not to suffer a surprise effect, which can be devastating."