Solène Delinger 6:26 p.m., March 21, 2024
In an interview with “Vogue” magazine, Sophie Marceau talks about the inappropriate behavior and gestures of Gérard Depardieu on the set of the film “Police”. The actress, who had a first positive experience with the actor, remembers not having recognized him.
Tongues continue to loosen around the Gérard Depardieu affair. Indicted for acts of rape and sexual assault, the monster of French cinema has fallen from his pedestal. The issue of
Complément d'investigation
devoted to the actor last December created a shock wave.
“He was terrible”
We saw Gérard Depardieu sexualizing a little girl during his trip to North Korea. Many personalities, including Alexandra Lamy and Muriel Robin, stepped up to the plate in a column published in
Libération
to denounce the “totem of impunity” from which the actor has benefited for years. Sophie Marceau herself suffered the feeling of Depardieu's omnipotence. It was in 1985, on the set of the film
Police
by Maurice Pialat. Sophie Marceau was 18 years old, Gérard Depardieu, 37. The teenager thought that their collaboration would go wonderfully because they already knew each other. "I had known him on
Fort Saganne
(editor's note: released the previous year), where he had been great. By accepting Pialat's film, I said to myself: 'There will be no problem, there will be has Depardieu next to me and he will help me.' And no! He was terrible. He’s versatile, Gérard,” recalls Sophie Marceau in an interview for
Vogue
magazine .
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“He made very inappropriate gestures”
On the first day of filming
Police
, the young actress was convinced that she would find a friendly Gérard Depardieu, a man with a “good spirit, funny, outspokenness”. The reality was unfortunately quite different. "He turned into Mister Hyde on
Police
. It was about who would cause the greatest chaos. He was very badly brought up, badly polite. He didn't rape me or hit me, but he made very inappropriate gestures "It was only provocation, humiliation, a takeover. And all that under the pretext of laughter...", explains Sophie Marceau in the columns of
Vogue
. After
Police,
the star never wanted to film with Depardieu again. “I found that he went beyond the limits but that the others who let him go beyond them too. Everyone was playing his game,” she regrets.
“Notoriety protected me”
In her interview for
Vogue
, Sophie Marceau also explains that she was not "spared" from misogyny and sexism on film sets. "I passed the tests, everything we hear today in the press about this masculine power over women, I experienced it in the cinema, as other women experience it in other professions", confides the actress who nevertheless believes that she has avoided the worst thanks to her celebrity: "Strangely, I think that notoriety protected me. You couldn't do anything too much with me".