The actress and director Isild Le Besco, who testifies in her book Tell the truth of his experience of sexism and sexual predation in cinema, denounced on Saturday, May 11 on the set of BFMTV due to Emmanuel Macron’s recent statements about Gérard Depardieu, accused of sexual assault by several women.
Questioned by Elle, the President of the Republic defended himself against any “complacency” towards the actor, stating “never having defended an aggressor against the victims.” “There is no complacency on my part. “I just want to respect the presumption of innocence…” he declared.
“They are just words,” Isild Le Besco reacted. “Emmanuel Macron has probably never experienced difficult things to lie so much to himself and to all of France. What he says is false. How can he consider women saying and acting as he does?”
“It has no consideration,” he added. “When we see (that) a woman (raped) is not considered, that justice rejects it, (…) it seems absolutely crazy to me that (Macron) despises women to the core. She would take me seriously about a minimum of things.”
“A man can rape”
Isild Le Besco also denounced the hypocrisy of Emmanuel Macron’s statements: “On the one hand, he tells women to rearm France and, on the other, all complaints are closed without further action. It is an absolute ambivalence.” “It’s reality,” she insisted again. “A man can rape, he can hit a woman, he can crush her. “We are in this society.”
Isild Le Besco also details in her book Tell the truth her relationship with director Benoît Jacquot, which began on the set of the film Sad when she was 16 years old and he was 52. In this text, she says that she is not willing to file a complaint against the director, who, however, believes that he “raped” her.
Source: BFM TV
