Aurore Bergé says she doesn’t “want” to see her new film with Fanny Ardant

Cinema – A “Personal opinion” But very clearly displayed. Aurore Bergé, the Minister Delegate responsible for equality between women and men, spoke this Sunday, May 4 on the next return of Gérard Depardieu to the cinema. The actor accused of sexual assault is currently filming in Portugal for the film She looked without seeing anythingdirected by her friend Fanny Ardant.

Asked about this project, Aurore Bergé, whose portfolio also includes the fight against discrimination, recalled at the microphone of Grand Jury of RTL – Public Senate – Le Figaro – M6 that Fanny Ardant “Has the right to run whoever she wants”believing that “It is the French who will judge if they want, tomorrow, to go see a new film that makes Gérard Depardieu play”.

But the elected Renaissance did not stop there, doing by his “Personal opinion”. « Moi […] After the report that there had been in “Investigation supplement” I do not want ” To see Gérard Depardieu shooting films again, she said. The program of France 2 broadcast at the end of 2023 had revealed images of the actor – shot during a trip with Yann Moix to North Korea in 2018 – where he appears in the process of multiplying the misogynist and insulting comments, while on the screen a girl is in the process of making horse.

Bank “Refused” by the words of Depardieu on the ” children “

A sequence that Aurore Bergé repeated that she had shocked her enormously. “The words that had been his own against the children had gave me so much that this simple fact is enough for me to no longer want to see him play in new films”said the macronist minister, who also expressed himself on the trial of Gérard Depardieu which was held at the end of March in Paris. If she called to “Wait for the court decision”Aurore Bergé also denounced “The way in which the alleged victims were treated throughout this trial”in particular by the defense lawyer Jérémie Assous, who has multiplied direct attacks and brutal remarks towards the complainants.

“It is free, but there is still a duty of ethics when you are a lawyer”said the minister, recalling that “Women hesitate to file a complaint” because they fear “The legal test” And not to be well treated. Aurore Bergé said this Sunday that she wanted to discuss “With order” lawyers “In order to know how while guaranteeing […] access to defense ”this one does not become “An additional legal test for the victims who would make them give up their rights”.

The verdict of the Gérard Depardieu trial will be known on May 13, which happens to be the opening date of the Cannes Festival. At that time, the actor will still be in Portugal, the shooting of Fanny Ardant’s film to end on May 24 according to the site specializing in Azores Facts Tourism. In his indictment on March 27, the prosecutor of the Paris court claimed a conviction of Gérard Depardieu at 18 months’ suspended imprisonment.

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