Europe 1 with AFP 11:09 a.m., February 8, 2024
After filing a complaint for rape of a minor against the director Benoît Jacquot, with whom she had a relationship when she was barely 14 years old, the actress Judith Godrèche denounced the sexual abuse allegedly committed by Jacques Doillon when she was 15 years old.
Actress Judith Godrèche on Thursday questioned the behavior towards her of director Jacques Doillon, when he was directing her and she was 15 years old, the day after the announcement of an investigation against another filmmaker who she accuses, Benoît Jacquot.
The Paris prosecutor's office opened this investigation after the actress' complaint of rape of a minor against Benoît Jacquot, who is 25 years older than her, directed her on screen and maintained a relationship with her for several years. from the age of 14.
Facts produced on the set of “The 15-year-old girl”
Thursday, the actress reiterated on France Inter her accusations of abuse and violence against this filmmaker and implicated another director of the same generation, Jacques Doillon, 79 years old. The facts she mentioned date back to the filming of “The 15-year-old girl”, released in 1989, and filmed when Judith Godrèche was 15 years old, and was in a relationship with Benoît Jacquot.
She recounted an intimate scene shot with Jacques Doillon, in the presence of Jane Birkin, who was then the director's partner. “All of a sudden, he decides that there is a love scene, a sex scene between him and me,” she said. “I take off my sweater, I'm shirtless, he gropes me, makes out with me,” she added. Asked whether Jacques Doillon had “abused” her, she acquiesced.
New testimonies on the behavior of Benoît Jacquot
On Thursday,
Le Monde
also published new testimonies on the behavior of Benoît Jacquot, author of “Farewell to the Queen” and “Diary of a Chambermaid”.
The actress and screenwriter Julia Roy, who is 42 years younger than him and has played in four of his films, denounces "verbal and physical violence": insults and threats, kicks and slaps, throwing chairs and dishes. The actress and director Isild le Besco, who shot six films with Benoît Jacquot, for her part sent a daily text in which she talks about "psychological or physical violence".
Neither Benoît Jacquot nor Jacques Doillon could immediately be reached by AFP. In
Le Monde
, Benoît Jacquot spoke of "a kick in the ass" to Julia Roy, and denied any physical violence against Isild le Besco.