“We encouraged Gérard Depardieu to behave like a pig,” denounces Michel Broué, at the initiative of a forum in support of the #MeToo movement

The mathematician, companion of Anouk Grinberg, explains on franceinfo that he refuses “to recognize himself in this hegemonic masculinity” which “is especially confused with the problem of power”.

“Men must show solidarity“, said this Wednesday on franceinfo, Michel Broué, mathematician and companion of the actress Anouk Grinberg. He is at the initiative of a forum of support of “100 men” for the #Metoo movement, published Tuesday April 30 on the website from Elle magazine It was signed by the actors Reda Kateb, Swann Arlaud, Mathieu Amalric, the director Jacques Audiard, the journalist Edwy Plenel and the historian Benjamin Stora.

The words of menmissing“, regrets Michel Broué who was touched by Judith Godrèche’s speech during the ceremony of the 24th César ceremony last February. “I speak, but I can’t hear you“, declared the actress who filed a complaint against the directors Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon, for sexual and physical violence during her adolescence, which the latter deny. “She addressed her community, but she also addressed the entire country, women and men. In any case, I felt concerned“, explains Michel Broué on franceinfo this Wednesday.

In this forum, “we write clearly that we took in the face what the #Metoo movement taught us, it made us understand things“, confides the mathematician. According to him, “there are obviously licensed bastards” but there is also “completely unconscious people”.

Depardieu “did not understand that what he did in the cinema, he should not do in life”

Michel Broué questions his education and his cultural references, taking the example of Georges Brassens, “a poet that almost everyone loves“He quotes the song.”I’m a thug” and more precisely the following words: “She said to me, in a severe tone: what are you doing here? But she let me do it. Girls are like that.” Michel Broué comments: “Of course Brassens was not saying that he was an aggressor or that it was necessary to attack, but these kinds of sentences fueled illusions.”

As written in the column, Michel Broué refuses “to recognize oneself in this hegemonic masculinity” Who “is mainly confused with the problem of power“. Gold, “power is exercised primarily by men over women” And “manifests itself in sexual abuse“, he denounces.

His partner Anouck Grinberg denounced last March, the “salaceries“by Gérard Depardieu”from morning to night” on the set of the film The green shutters in 2021. The actor, already indicted for rape, will be tried in October 2024 for sexual assault. “He was encouraged to behave like a pig […] We encouraged him, we paid him for it“, denounces Michel Broué, quoting the film The waltzers. “This guy, I think he didn’t understand that what he did in the cinema – and that we were wrong to make him do in the cinema – he shouldn’t do in life“, he comments, inviting everyone to fight for “true equality between men and women” and to put an end to these behaviors, gender-based violence.