Jacques Doillon speaks to Le Parisien for the first time since Judith Godrèche accused him of rape. Doillon says he never had an intimate relationship with the actress.
He denies having made ‘forty-five’ takes of the film, but ‘probably seven or eight’ The director says he is the ‘poster child of blacklisted filmmakers’ and accepts the term “social death�’ for his career. He says he has had romances with actresses, but that he is ‘not a harasser’. He also denies that he ever sexually assaulted any of the women he has worked with in the film industry, such as Anna Mouglalis, who he says he had a ‘romantic relationship’ with. The director also says that he has never sexually assaulted anyone in the movie industry, despite the accusations made against him by the women. The actress claims that he sexually assaulted her on two occasions, in 1989.