Saturday September 16, on the set of the show “Quelle époque!” from France 2, Muriel Robin said that actors who come out are ostracized.
In the middle of a promotional tour for a play, Muriel Robin ignites social networks with her shattering declarations. It’s not about the play but what she said on France 2, Saturday September 16 evening. “I am the only actress in the world to say she is homosexual and that’s why I didn’t make films,” affirms the artist. Comments that she had already made on franceinfo a few days earlier.
For Muriel Robin, it is important, 30 years after the start of her career, to express what she describes as a certainty: to make cinema you must not say your homosexuality because you have to be “desirable, penetrable in the eyes of men, otherwise we are worthless”. An unprecedented questioning of the world of cinema, its producers and directors and a warning to young homosexuals: “We have to tell them, there’s no point in them doing this job, they won’t work, they won’t make films, and I don’t want them to experience what I experienced.”
The dream of a career like Annie Girardot
From the end of the 1970s, Muriel Robin learned comedy at Cours Florent. She received first place at the Paris Conservatory of Dramatic Art, from which she graduated three years later, under the direction of Michel Bouquet who spoke of her as a raw talent. Difficult to admit for the daughter of shoe merchants from Saint-Etienne who claims to have waited her entire life for an encouraging word from her mother.
With her square jaw, her short hair and her black suits, Muriel Robin dreamed of a career like Annie Girardot, but it never came. So for 30 years, she made people laugh, without having fun, like when she was little she felt responsible for the happiness of her entire family. But never in cinema.
“For 30 years I cried my eyes out because of this situation,” she explains. Today Muriel Robin assures that she is doing well, but that she wants to bring this subject to the public square of under-representation, the word is weak, of homosexuals in cinema.