After posting a message last Friday on his social networks, Francis Renaud receives numerous messages of support.
“
I’m very touched, I can’t thank everyone
,” he confides exclusively to Le
Figaro
.
He speaks out about the verbal and sexual assaults he allegedly suffered from filmmaker André Téchiné and casting director Gérard Moulévrier.
The filmmaker would have been inspired by his story to film
I Kiss Not
(1991), the story of a young boy who goes to Paris to become an actor.
Francis Renaud himself left his native Lorraine to try his luck in Paris at the age of 18, in 1985. André Téchiné suggested that he meet his assistant Michel Béna who was preparing to shoot his first film,
Le Ciel de Paris
: “
He tells me: I want to suck you, André Téchiné stole my life, he is the devil
,” reports Francis Renaud.
Michel Béna died of AIDS in 1991, his film was released the following year.
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