After the controversy over Gérard Depardieu, actress Judith Godrèche who accuses director Benoît Jacquot of control. The facts date back more than 30 years, the actress, now 51 years old, was revealed in the cinema when she was only 14 years old, and began an affair of several years with the filmmaker, aged at the time 40 years old. This story was public in the 1980s, but times and mentalities have changed. And Judith Godrèche made her accusations public this Monday on the social network Instagram.
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From her personal story, Judith Godrèche has just produced a mini-series that is funny and serious at the same time, Icon of French Cinema, broadcast on Arte. The actress plays herself, but has changed the name of the 40-year-old director who made her film for the first time when she was 14 and with whom she lived for a few years.
But discretion is no longer required since this weekend and the reappearance of an interview dating from 2011 in which Benoît Jacquot boasts of this forbidden passion. “ We don’t have the right in principle, I think. A girl like her, Judith, who was 15, me at 40, I had no right. But she didn’t give a damn about that, even that excited her a lot, I would say. » The director even adds with a smirk: “ In a way, making cinema is a cover for morals of this type. »
“ The little girl in me can no longer keep silent about this name »
Passed unnoticed in 2011, this damning video shocks in these post-Metoo times. Judith Godrèche then decides to make her Instagram account public and denounces an abusive and perverse relationship between the teenager she was at 14 and the filmmaker then 40 years old. “ The little girl in me can no longer keep silent about this name “, she said, in a message posted on Instagram over the last weekend, deleted before being re-uploaded on Monday, where she speaks of “ right of way ” and of ” perversion “. “ His name is Benoît Jacquot. He still manipulates those who might associate their names with mine. Bear witness. He threatens to take me to court for defamation “, says the 51-year-old actress, believing that the filmmaker is “ esteemed for his perversion “.
Judith Godrèche was revealed in Beggars by Jacquot (1988) then The Disenchanted (1990). The filmmaker built his work around actresses, including stars like Isabelle Huppert.
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