Since the testimony of Judith Godrèche against the directors Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon, the word in French cinema has been freed.
And this did not escape Jodie Foster.
The 61-year-old American actress, who takes on the role of a police chief in the fourth season of the series
True Detective
, spoke on this subject on France Inter on Tuesday February 13.
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At the microphone of Alexandra Bensaid, the star of
Silence of the Lambs
welcomed the awakening of French people in the face of sexual violence.
“When I was young, it was a different world where women felt like they didn't have the right to say no to anything,” the actress said in perfect French, after having been questioned about the Depardieu affair.
“There, it’s different.
It’s a generation that is different,” she rejoiced.
And if she regrets a certain “delay of the French” on these questions, she encourages them: “Well, wake up!”
Six years after the #MeToo movement born in the United States, the testimony of Judith Godrèche has shaken the world of French cinema in recent days.
The 51-year-old actress recently denounced the influence of director Benoît Jacquot, with whom she had a relationship when she was 14, and he was 39. In the process, she filed a complaint against him for “rape with violence against a minor under 15 years old” committed by a person in authority, but also against Jacques Doillon whom she also accuses of rape.
Still on France Inter, Jodie Foster believes that #MeToo has since changed the situation.
For the actress, the situation on the sets “has improved for everyone”, and not only “in the cinema” but also “in other industries, because people are talking”.
For her part, she says she is “very aware” of the protection she received from her “mother, producers and directors who saw [her] as their daughter”.
“At 12-13 years old, I had a certain power in the industry and perhaps that protected me,” she believes, as noted by
France Info
.
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