“In addition to Charlotte Arnould’s complaint, we have compiled 13 accounts of women who say they have been subjected to sexually inappropriate propositions or jokes by the famous actor, of varying levels of severity,” the report states. Mediapart.
In this report, he indicates that these harassments were repeated and it was a systematic dynamic by the 74-year-old actor, an activity that was known to the rest of the cast.
The actor had rapprochements with the make-up artists, actresses or team technicians whom “put his hands on the buttocks, between the legs, on the thighs or on the bellyas well as making obscene sexual positions and, at times, emitting insistent moans”, is narrated in the report.
One of the complainant actresses in this report, who collaborated with Depardieu on the tape big house was who indicated. “Without warning, Gérard Depardieu reached under my dress. I felt his fingers trying to reach my panties,” she recalled, adding that “she pushed her hand away, but continued.” “He became aggressive, tried to take off my underwear and touch me: I understood that this was not part of her character. If he had not stopped him, he would have succeeded,” the actress explained.
The revealing report media part points out that these episodes were systematically ignored in the set with laughter and comments such as: “Oh, okay, it’s just Gérard!”. Although there are the positions of many of the complainants who did not present their complaint then for fear of violent reprisals and the risk of not being able to return to work.
“One element is common in the stories. The asymmetry between, on the one hand, often young and precarious women who are starting their careers, and on the other, a world-famous actor, whose mere presence sometimes makes it possible to finance the film,” they recall. in this report.
Among other productions where these attacks of sexual violence were experienced were The Other Dumas (2010) and the Netflix series Marseille (2016-2018).
According to Depardieu’s lawyers, from the Cabinet Temime law firm, they indicated that some of the accounts appeared to be based on “very subjective evaluations and/or moral judgments,” which the actor categorically rejects the facts. “He formally denies all charges that may fall under criminal law,” was his position before the French media.