in the columns of Set freeThe 47-year-old Belgian actress does not mince her words about the film director Joachim Lafosse, who filmed her in “one of the worst shoots” of her life.
The #MeToo wave has not only engulfed Hollywood and the French seventh art. The actions of director Joachim Lafosse have just been revealed in Belgium. during the investigation of Set free Posted on Tuesday June 11 by several collaborators of the Belgian filmmaker, director Anxious (2021) or Usilence (2023) condemn his working methods as “giving freedom to a toxic and destabilizing environment under the guise of creativity”. About ten women, screenwriters, actresses, technicians, specifically point out the working conditions on the sets of his films, describing facts that can be compared to moral harassment, sexual harassment and sexual harassment.
Among them is a well-known face to the general public, Virginie Efira. The 47-year-old Belgian actress agreed to speak Set free to testify to the moral harassment he suffered from Belgium’s top director Joachim Lafosse, “one of the most prolific, most awarded and certainly one of the most influential”.
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“I was running, I was saying, ‘I don’t see you.’
In 2019, Virginie Efira crossed paths with Joachim Lafosse on the set of a movie. Continue. “It was probably one of the worst shoots of my life,” he admits, describing “a team that just couldn’t take it anymore.” “He’s someone who only has access to one reality, his own, unable to question himself, and a kind of internal drive to want to cause destabilization in others, create conflict in order to feel alive and perhaps create. He will go to the place of transgression to put you in all your states so that you are destabilized, subordinated or angry.
Still on set ContinueVirginie Efira still says she had to take a “very long distance” from Joachim Lafosse to stop talking to him. “He was trying to talk to me, I was running and saying: “I don’t see you, I don’t see you anymore.” It was one of the funniest shootings in terms of pathos. I was 40 years old, he absolutely could not fire me, I am already an accomplished actress. He pushed me to the limit, but everyone was against him, the producers couldn’t take it anymore. He was in the general minority. He was, in fact, alone.” Requested Set free, Joachim Lafosse defends himself. Every day, he assures that his relationship with Virginia Efira on the set was “friendly and respectful”.
With the involvement of around ten other former collaborators, the director is currently shooting in the south of France. “In the film I’m making now,” he says, “I’m noticing the complacency these health, welfare and safety concerns bring today to ensure that third parties question our filmmaking. She also says that she is “actively participating in the wonderful and fundamental developments in applying my profession to gender-based violence and well-being at work in film.”
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Source: Le Figaro
