Indicted since December 2020 for rape and sexual assault on actress Charlotte Arnould, Gérard Depardieu
has sparked controversy again for several days and the broadcast of Further investigation on Thursday December 7, 2023. A report from France 2 in which we can discover the sacred monster of French cinema traveling to North Korea in the company of Yann Moix and having numerous verbal slips towards women.
Since then, the supposed victims of the 74-year-old actor, as well as his friends, have reacted. If some people took advantage of this documentary to push Gérard Depardieu, others wish to defend it. Particularly because they do not recognize their friend in the person described for several months. In any case, this is what was revealed Nathalie Baye this Monday, December 11, 2023 on France Inter.
Laura Smet’s mother wanted to give her “point of view” on the actor she knows well and with whom she shared the poster in Right bank, left bank, I haven’t forgotten anything, Michou d’Auber or The Return of Martin Guerre.
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Nathalie Baye gives her opinion on Gérard Depardieu
“Gérard, I have known him forever because he was my first partner from the very beginning of my career. I have never had a problem with him, absolutely never”she assured before continuing: “It’s not a matter of defending or not defending Gérard. I don’t want to get into the media fray”. She also ensures that Gérard Depardieu has always been “great elegance, great kindness”or “a golden partner to play with”. “I don’t know this man we’re talking about.”she also deplores.
About the Further investigation on his friend, Nathalie Baye hasn’t seen it but has “heard”. “I have never had any feedback on what is happening now. When I hear things, I am stunned. I do not know the man that is being described now”she insists once again when our colleagues question her about the recorded images in which Gérard Depardieu multiplies misogynistic and insulting remarks to the women he meets. But the jokes “heavy” of the sacred monster of cinema are not unique. In fact, the actress believes that “people who make rather heavy jokes, there are half of France, even three quarters” who do it.
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