In an interview with “Nouvel Obs”, the actress also claims to have been influenced by the director during this filming, at the end of the 1990s. “Delusional” accusations denied by Catherine Breillat.
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She speaks after “a very long process”. In an interview with the New Obs, Tuesday, August 27, actress Caroline Ducey claims to have been raped during the filming of the movie Romance by Catherine Breillat, released in 1999. Accusations that the actress reveals in the book Predation (feminine noun), published by Albin Michel. Caroline Ducey also claims to have been a victim of the filmmaker’s influence. Catherine Breillat announced her intention to file a defamation complaint.
The movie Romance explores the sexual experiences of a young woman, played by Caroline Ducey. “Neither in the original script nor in the contract that I will sign later, is there any mention of these scenes [de sexe] are not simulated”, says the actress in The New Obs. According to her, Catherine Breillat refused to discuss the subject before filming. She reportedly did not respond to a letter from the young actress, who asked her “not to force myself to do things I don’t want to do”says Caroline Ducey.
According to the actress’s account, during a scene filmed with François Berléand, the filmmaker “demands that he make the gesture [d’une pénétration digitale] ‘for real’ and refuses him”. “She insists” but the actress and François Berléand manage to “to trick” to simulate the act, she says. A few days later, the actress, then 21, had to shoot another scene with Rocco Siffredi, a pornographic film actor. “I hear Catherine [Breillat] screaming that she needs me. I arrive, she tells me that she has changed her mind and that we have to shoot a sex scene, him and me.”continues Caroline Ducey. “I feel his cock trying to enter me, but my body shuts down.”
“Rocco has the elegance not to force me. A few days later, however, I will be raped on the set.”
Caroline Ducey, actressin “Le Nouvel Obs”
According to the actress, the events occurred during the filming of another scene of Romance. “I have to hear the words ‘cunnilingus’ and ‘sodomy’, but at this point, I don’t even know what I’m hearing anymore. Catherine asks me to take off my tights and panties, for reasons of ‘realism’. I comply.”she says. “We start the engine. I feel an intense burning: Reza [l’homme qui joue la scène avec elle] gave me oral sex. I lose consciousness, I fall into a black hole.”
In this interview, the actress assures that Catherine Breillat masturbated the man who played the scene with her so that he remained erect. “When Reza returned to the set, I whispered to him: ‘You listen to me, not her.’ I could see in his eyes that he understood that if he did it again, I would kill him.”relates Caroline Ducey, who adds that an assistant left the set, unable to “endorse this”.
Near the New Obsthe actress confides in the long reconstruction that followed this shoot. “I tried to file a complaint several times. I was received for two minutes in the corridor of a police station.”she reports. “In 2012, I went to see Catherine to get out of submission and ask her if she was aware of what was rape for me. She repeated over and over: ‘I knew he [l’acteur] was mean'”continues Caroline Ducey. The actress decided to write her story last year, after reading sad tiger by Snow Sinno.
In a second article published by The New Obs On Wednesday morning, Catherine Breillat denied the accusation of rape during the making of the film: “I affirm that Caroline was not raped on the set”she insists.. According to the director, an assistant could not have been outraged by the rape scene described in the book, since “At my house, “It is impossible for a second assistant to witness an intimate scene”. Personally accused by Caroline Ducey of having masturbated an actor on the set, the director evokes “a delusional accusation that aims to [la] harm and [la] to lower”.
Regarding the non-simulated sexual acts that Caroline Ducey claims she was not informed about before filming, the director gives a completely different version: “[Elle] THE had accepted, but it was not stipulated in his contract, She was therefore free not to turn them.”