“I laughed with the others because I was afraid of what would happen to me.” Anouk Greenberg condemns the behavior of Gerard Depardieu.

The documentary is in charge Further investigation Gérard Depardieu, which was broadcast on France 2 on December 7, greatly shocked the public. A particularly disturbing sequence has been making the rounds on social media for several days now, as we see an actor accused of rape and sexual assault in 2020 traveling to North Korea two years ago. Accompanied by the writer Ian Moix, he makes serious jokes to the women who approach him, increases the number of comments of a sexual nature, sometimes even connects words to gestures with hand movements. Anouk Greenberg, who worked with the actor on the set thank you life (1991) by Bertrand Blier spoke about these new images in France Inter this Monday, October 11th.

Environmental complacency

“He didn’t wait to be in Korea to be so vulgar, so rude, so aggressive with women,” the 60-year-old actress immediately assured. Blier’s former companion, a director very close to the translator Waltz And Cyrano de BergeracHe also admits that he is “not surprised” because Gerard Depardieu “has always been like that”. “And on all film sets, people are as indifferent as Ian Moix,” he adds ruefully. Indeed, in the sequence, the writer continues the behavior of the “holy monster” of the cinema with an embarrassed laugh. Anouk Greenberg recently seen The innocent by Louis Garrel, then continues: “The show makes us think not only about the monstrosity that Gerard Depardieu agrees with half of the human race, but also about the other monstrosity: the people of cinema, who are indifferent to the evils we do to women, the humiliations we inflict on them. . Who let his big hand pull down women’s pants, who let him destroy women all his life?

For him, Gerard Depardieu is “that way” because he is allowed to be “that way”. The actress describes him as a “scoundrel” to her colleagues, even questioning the real reasons for their long-standing friendship. “Being friends with Depardieu must be difficult because he’s forever destroying people,” she explains. They choose blindness, indifference, denial to save something sacred. In turn, he explains that he was complacent at times so as not to become a victim of the actor. “I kept silent for a long time, even though I knew all this. I laughed with the others because I was afraid of what would happen to me,” he continues.

13 testimonials from women

Anouk Greenberg, who had already testified in a lengthy interview last October He, then returned to the testimony of Charlotte Arnold, the young actress who accuses Depardieu of raping her twice in her home when she was a virgin. “In this atmosphere of terror and love, he wanted to tell her the truth, and he did it again, he raped her with his thumb,” says Greenberg. After Charlotte Arnold’s complaint in 2018, the actor was investigated for rape and sexual harassment in 2020. Because the young woman, now 28, is not the only one to testify against him, and her story is now joined by the stories of 13 other women who were victims of violence, as revealed in a Mediapart article published on April 11, 2023 to They include actresses Sarah Brooks and Helen Daras, who are both featured in the documentary. Further investigation.

Moreover, if Sophie Marceau doesn’t appear at their side, the translator A party Gerard Depardieu was also accused of having sex on the set of the film Police (1985) by Maurice Pialat. Asked The world , in June 2023, she confided how the experience turned out for her, who was just 18 at the time, recalling a scene under the sheets when he touched her private parts. “He never dared to touch me in front of the team or he would have punched me in the face,” he confided.