“I would say that there is a big secret.” these interviews in the video, where Emmanuel Beart spoke half-heartedly about incest, of which he was a victim;

You just had to read between the lines. In 1999 and 2014, as part of two interviews on the program “Thé ou Café” presented by Catherine Seylac on France 2, Emmanuel Béart gave some half-hearted clues about his painful childhood. On September 5, the 60-year-old actress revealed the incest she had between the ages of 10 and 14 during the documentary, without mentioning the name of her attacker. So loud silence, which will be broadcast on September 24 on M6. “I’m 11 years old, it’s night, I’m sure. You tear my sleep like you silently tear my nightgown”, we hear his whisper from the first seconds of the film.

“What We Don’t Say”

If these revelations surprised the French film world and not only, these two old interviews already showed the grief of the actress. Therefore, in 1999, he rudely answered the question of journalist Catherine Jelak. “If you were to sum up what you experienced as a child, would you say it was a pretty happy, happy, balanced childhood?” “Actually, I won’t say anything about my childhood because I never said anything. I wouldn’t say anything because to say things, even if they’re good, even if they’re beautiful things, is to involve other people who haven’t asked for their lives to be revealed.

And continue. “I would say that there is a big secret. Things that we don’t say, things that come out despite us, because in each of my roles there are certainly resonances in my life, in what I have experienced. In my love, in my rebellions. But the great secret of my being, which is childhood, from very early childhood to now, is intact.”

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An incurable flesh wound

Fifteen years later, still on the show “Thé ou Café”, Emmanuel Bert mentioned this injury again, without qualifying it. “In my childhood, you say, and it’s serious, you say there is a wound, an incurable wound,” the host continued, before asking, “when are you going to talk about it?” the translator of Sources Manon Then he answered without hesitation. “I will never say more,” he continued. And it’s a phase of life that seemed much harder to manage, much harder to live (…) And then with maturity you get rid of your baggage.”

He who says he does not believe in “fatalism” or “fate” has always believed that it is possible for him to “change the course of his life.” What to do with pain? “We have to do something about it,” he replies in this sequence. With his documentary So loud silenceEmmanuel Beart followed his course of action. And finally, it seems to have healed his wounds.

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