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In an interview with TF1 “Sept à Huit” magazine, actress Vahina Jocante condemned director Benoit Jaco’s problematic behavior on the set of the film. No scandalwas released in 1999.
A few days before his book’s release on March 28th Open body (Robert Laffont), Vahina Jocante interviewed journalist Audrey Crespo-Mara for the show “Sept à Huit”. During this interview broadcast on TF1 on March 24, the actress condemned Benoit Jaco’s problematic behavior towards women.
“I’m told that Benoit Jaco is loved by many young women”
“He is the only director whose name is in the book. And I decided to name it in defense of Judith Godresh’s words. To put me next to him or behind him,” Vahina Jokante immediately surmises before returning to her unpleasant experience with the director in the film. No scandal, released in 1999. He was only 18 years old at that time. “I’m told that Benoit Jacquet is loved by many young women, and I can actually feel his seductive energy. And then, there’s a scene where I have to get out of bed in a rather long shirt. He comes to see me and says: “I’d like us to do it again, but I’d like you to take your panties off.”
“If you are good, you will make the next film”
Faced with the refusal of the actress, who sees “no excuse” for this request, Benoit Jacquot would insist, using his status as a director. “So I go into the dressing room, I’m mad. Please don’t wear flesh-colored panties, a thong, or nothing at all, because I feel very vulnerable,” she recalls. “I go back to the set, I do the scene. He thinks I’m a naked ass, I won. And he looks at me with his sideways glance. He comes to see me and says: “When you want, you see, it was not very difficult.” And I feel this relationship of dominance at that moment.”
The story could have ended like this, but after some time the man, who is now 77 years old, would return to the accusation. “One day he comes to see me and says: “I don’t know if you understand, but if you’re good, you’ll make the next film,” he condemns, who is known for his roles. The Libertine, Leela says that or Mata Hari.
“A lot of people in the cinema are “above the ground””
Like Judith Godresh, who denounced the “incest society of cinematography” in her stirring speech at the National Assembly on March 14, Vahina Jokante also points to an entire system. “When someone told me at the age of 17: “Be careful because he likes very young girls” why is it left for me to be careful? Why isn’t it up to you to protect us or put up barriers?” he asks.
Already in December 2023, in a long text published on his Facebook account, Vahina Jokante compiled an inglorious inventory of this microcosm. “It pains me to note that many people in cinema are ‘above ground’, cut off from this new world that is emerging,” he wrote at the time in response to a forum of cultural figures supporting Gerard Depardieu. He also accused the actor of “putting his hand into the extra’s panties during the take.”
Source: Le Figaro
