How to miss a subject as difficult as this? When she received the script forA damaged manthis evening on France 2, Anne Marivin simply could not say no, as she confided to the magazine Gala. “This film is of public utility and believe me, I don’t often read such scripts. Even if I had had an even less present role, I would have gone there“.
Indeed, in this TV movie directed by Philippe Triboit, we follow the story of a lawyer raped by one of his colleagues and who refuses to talk about it. The subject of male rape, still very little discussed, nevertheless made the actress reflect and in particular on the education she wishes to give to her eldest son, Léonard, who will be 13 years old and who will see the film “although it touches on a very hard subject“and that certain scenes are not”not watered down“.
“I come from a generation where we used to say ‘A little boy doesn’t cry’. For my part, I always told my son that he could cry whenever he wanted, that sensitivity is a very good quality. I never raised him with the idea that a little boy is strong and a little girl is sensitive.“, she explained to the magazine.
Rather discreet about her children (she is also the mother of a six-year-old girl, Andréa), Anne Marivin hopes to trigger “reactions and maybe even confessions” with her film. Indeed, it is a subject still too little discussed according to her.
“These male rapes are much less verbalized [que les viols féminins] and brought to the attention of the authorities. We talk about it in little boys, in minors but not in men who are supposed to be in a physical position to defend themselves. And yet…“, she denounces, finding on the other hand the movement MeToo “great”.
A mother committed to her two children and who has always liked to alternate between comic roles and dramas, especially on television. In 2021, we could see her as an investigator in the very good police mini-series Rebecca. She will be featured in Life, Love, immediately in a few months (with Medi Sadoun and Anna Biolay in particular), then Visionsa detective mini-series with Louane.