It’s a moment in his life that he hardly ever talks about, a trauma that Olivier Marchal will never forget : in 2008, when her eldest daughter Léa was 14 years old, she attacked at the exit of his Parisian college. A violent attack, which will leave the young girl with significant injuries, but above all serious psychological consequences. An act that he will not forgive, as his daughter is affected.
“My daughter she still suffers from it todayshe left, she left Paris because of that“, he said in particular in 2018, on the set of Hello earthlings. “She repeated the 4th classshe gained 20 kilos, she has since lost them but it has been a long journey for her“. It must be said that the beating had been very virulent, as he had described it a little later.
“They assaulted her at seven, they beat her up. All because it was a private college for girls, a college for the so-called wealthy when we are in the 11th arrondissement (district of Paris). So I went crazy“, he said with honesty. The actor even threatened the judge to take the law into his own hands. Moreover, it was on this set that he had said he was shocked by the attitude of this same judge, whom he had found “so offensive“.
Disgusted by a justice which, according to him, has “not doing its job“, the actor said he had completely lost faith in the institution, he who went through the PJ before becoming an actor and directing the masterpiece of the French thriller 36 quai des Orfèvres. Fortunately, his daughter Léa, whose mother, Catherine Marchal, is also an actress and director, now seems to have come a long way since her assault.
Eldest of the siblings, she did not want to enter, it seems, the world of her parents, unlike her little sister Zoé. This one, born in 1998, has indeed become an actress and has already held several roles in series, in particular those with her parents. Very friendly with another “daughter of”, Chloé Jouannet, the young girl should regularly make the front page of magazines in the years to come. The last two of the siblings, Ninon and Basile are still young (16 years old and 13 years old) but could one day also follow the path.