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French MPs have criticized “spatial” abuse in the entertainment sector after a month -long examination of sexual violence that stars and other actors have revealed examples of bullying and attacks.
The investigation led by feminist Greens MP Sandrin Russo was inspired by the allegations of Judith Godreche, who accused two French directors that when she was a teenager.
In a final harmful report seen by AFP before its release on Wednesday, the inquiry accused the entertainment sector of being a “talent grinding machine” and made 86 recommendations to better save actors and children on the set.
“Ethical, sexist and sexual violence in the cultural field is systemic, spatial and frequent,” read a conclusion from Rousseo, who oversees a six -month hearing, who sees 350 people in the film, theater and TV fields.
The report follows the sexual harassment test of the screen legend Gerrard Depardyu last month, which is the highest profile figure to face criminal allegations after the #MeToo movement, which encouraged women to speak against violence.
#MeToo was publicly opposed by some people in the French entertainment sector when it first emerged in 2017, including actress Catherine Daneuway, who saw it as a puriton American imports that encouraged the broadcast of unbalanced allegations.
Depardiyu, who is facing allegations from about a dozen women, was supported by 60 film and art data in a 2023 petition, while President Emmanuel Macron called him “huge actor” who “proud of France”.
Depardieu denied the allegations and told his trial that he did not “like” women and “groups”. A decision is scheduled to take place on 13 May.
The report questions the prevalent approach in France that derogatory behavior by top cultural figures can be excited in the name of art.
“Cultural exception ‘, but at what cost?” It asks.
“In our country, there is a creed of talent and creative talent,” Iman Balanant, a centralist MP of the Commission, told AFP.
Saying no’
Some of France’s biggest stars Juliet Binoche, Jean Dujardin and Pierre Nine agreed to test the parliamentary investigation, but usually behind the closed doors and sometimes on the condition that their comments were not made public.
The strongest testimony came from 53 -year -old Godreche, who published against “impurities” in the film industry and “inactivity” of its major lights.
“There is not a single person of my past with an established role in the cinema world – and therefore, in the position of power … who has written to me since then, the actress seen in” The Spanish apartment “said,” The Man in the Iron Mask “, or” Potich “, in which departiyu was painted.
Fellow actress Sarah Forestor described in November how she repeatedly called the directors who wanted to sleep with her and who refused threatened to remove the roles.
He said, “As long as I said ‘no’ no ” many times – and I paid the price for it,” he said, “How he had to quit shooting after slapping an actor in 2017, which was later identified as Nicholas Duwachal.
Crossing the line?
In 2012, Oscar winner Jean Dujardin admitted that some male actors might have failed to condemn the misconduct in the past, but this approach was changing.
“We don’t see everything – and perhaps we don’t want to see,” 52 -year -old Dujardin said, according to a transcript published last month.
He said that “Now we do not say what we used to say 10 or 15 years ago, and we will not say the same thing in 10 years … I think sexist reactions and clumsy comments are slowly disappearing”.
In mid -March, veteran celebrity agent Dominic Besheard challenged some of the testimony about sexual abuse from actresses, which led to a struggle with Rousseau, who accused them of “derogatory remarks”.
“When I was an agent, I noticed that some actresses crossed the line slightly. You don’t go to a hotel with a director,” Besenhard said.
Giles Lelocha, a widely praised French star, which gives voice to Obilix in Estex films, recalled an experience involving a female director, which tried to “detect” her.
He said, “I was not violently attacked – these were things like hands under my shirt. If I had done the same with a woman, it would not have been right,” he said.
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