Moving, poignant, courageous. The viewers and actors present at the 49th César ceremony expected no less from the speech of Judith Godreche
this Friday, February 23, 2024. Indeed, the ex-partner of Dany Boon, who spoke of the sexual violence she allegedly suffered from directors Jacques Doillon and Benoît Jacquot while she was still a minor, promised a speaking during the evening and stuck to it.
In addition to discussing the alleged sexual assaults on the part of filmmakers, the 51-year-old actress took the opportunity to denounce the silence of her peers in the face of violence in the 7th art. “It’s complicated to find myself in front of all of you, this evening. But deep down I tell myself that it had to happen, our faces, face to face, eyes to eyes […] Deep down, I’ve known nothing other than cinema.”first declared Judith Godrèche, with a lump in his throat on the stage of the Olympia.
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Judith Godrèche, courageous, denounces the “silence” of her peers
If the actress decided to break the silence this Friday evening, it is also because “for some time now, speech has been loosened”. “The idealized image of our fathers is being eroded, power seems almost swayed. Could it be possible that we could face the truth? Take our responsibilities? Be the actors and actresses of a universe that is calling itself into question? “she asked herself afterwards before denouncing: “For some time I have been talking, I have been talking, but I can’t hear you, or barely… Where are you? What are you saying? A whisper, half a word, that would already be it, says Little Red Riding Hood. I know it’s scary”.
Judith Godreche recognizes that “lose grants, lose roles, lose your job”, can be scary. But she also has “fear”she who has “left school at 15”and who has “not the baccalaureate”. But now it’s “30 years that silence has been its driving force” and decided that it was time for things to change and for the violence to finally be denounced.
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