(Paris) Actress Isild Le Besco, who spoke out against filmmakers Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon following Judith Godrèche, plans to file a complaint against these two renowned French cinema directors, AFP learned on Thursday from from his lawyer.
“Isild le Besco is considering a complaint. She is considering it,” said Me Benjamin Chouai, after the 41-year-old French actress raised this possibility in a newspaper interview The Parisian dated Thursday.
In the daily newspaper, she details her accusations against Benoît Jacquot, now 77 years old, with whom she had a relationship from the age of 16.
She thus denounces a “destructive influence, a loss of self. Above all, psychological violence.”
“For example, he was constantly telling me that I was fat. There was also physical violence, sometimes out of anger. Unlike Judith, I did not live with him and that perhaps protected me a little,” continues the actress, spotted in the feature film Sade by Benoît Jacquot in 2000.
Concerning Jacques Doillon, 79, she accuses him again of having deprived her of a role in a film when she was 17, “from the moment when (she) refused his advances”.
At the beginning of February, this director contested this version and denounced “lies” in a statement sent to AFP.
He claimed that Isild Le Besco “made him believe that she was being held on another shoot while she was on vacation”.
The actress attacks, in The Parisianin the middle of the cinema of which she says that he “behaved exactly as a family behaves when one of its members is mistreated: by remaining silent”.
These statements come in the wake of those of French actress Judith Godrèche, who filed a complaint against directors Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon for sexual and physical violence dating back to her adolescence and became a spearhead of the #metoo movement In France.