For nearly 50 years, her British accent has captivated all French directors: Charlotte Rampling is an actress who has experienced everything in the cinema. And whether she participates in blockbusters or auteur films, the actress has never lost her outspokenness even if it happens from time to time that she regrets some of her words. And in particular one of his sentences, pronounced in 2016.
At the time, the Essex-born comedian was nominated for an Oscar for her role in 45 years old and can make history by winning a long-awaited statuette. But in his private life, nothing is going well: a few months earlier, his companion Jean-Noël Tassez has just died. In the midst of an emotional storm, she gives her opinion on the requests to boycott the 2016 Oscars evening for lack of diversity.
Referring to “anti-white racism”, she creates controversy with a very borderline explanation. “Maybe black actors didn’t deserve to be in the home stretch?“, she wonders in particular, while saying she is opposed to the establishment of quotas for minorities. “Why classify people? They feel like a minority, they think ‘we are black actors and we don’t exist enough’. There are always problems: he’s less handsome, he’s too black, he’s too white… So we’re going to say ‘we’re going to classify all that to make lots of minorities everywhere?'”
Words that she had regretted very shortly after and for which she had already apologized. “I regret that my comments could have been misinterpreted this week in my interview with Europe 1. I simply wanted to say that in an ideal world, performances would all be considered as equal opportunities. I am honored to be part of the wonderful group of actors and actresses nominated this year.“, she had declared for CBS News.
A tough time for her
While she finally left empty-handed, she remembers especially with bitterness what she had said that day… and regrets it today. In interview in Paris Match this Thursday, she also admitted to having “packed“.”Jean-Noël, my companion, had just died“, she herself justified.
“I was gloriously on this path to the Oscar, well maybe. A shrink told me afterwards that I had reacted to the event. You say anything to anyone, it’s sudden, the moment seems unbearable. It was early, but I never give interviews in the morning. I instantly regretted and knew what was to come“, she then confessed. In any case for her now, no more nonsense and only cinema!