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#MeToo cinema: actress Isild Le Besco filed a complaint against Benoît Jacquot
#MeToo cinema: actress Isild Le Besco filed a complaint against Benoît Jacquot
(France 2)
According to the actress, Benoît Jacquot took her “as a muse and object of fantasy” from 1999, when she was 16 and he was 62. Today she denounces facts which are not all prescribed.
Isild Le Besco reveals the abuse she allegedly suffered from director Benoît Jacquot, with whom she had a relationship. She appeals to justice for facts which are not all prescribed. “The time to identify, to name that there was something that was not good for me, today, I am ready to file a complaint against a man who took me as a muse and object of fantasy. He was 37 years older than me.”testifies the actress, who believes she did not have an entourage “very attentive”. She claims to have experienced a form of astonishment, close to tetany.
“This will perhaps influence the courts to revisit the definition of rape. There is rape of the mind above all”, explains Isild Le Besco. Once opposed to the idea of filing a complaint, the actress finally changed her mind and hopes to change laws and mentalities. Contacted, Benoît Jacquot’s lawyer recalls that the director disputes the facts described by the actress.
In addition to Benoît Jacquot, Isild Le Besco spoke out at the beginning of February against another director, Jacques Doillon, of whom she denounces a form of sexual blackmail committed in 2000, when she hoped to star in the film Directly to the westreleased the following year. “When I refused to sleep with him, he removed me from the project and gave the role to his daughter”, she accuses. Jacques Doillon, who is also accused of rape and sexual assault by actresses Judith Godrèche and Anna Mouglalis, has denied all of these allegations.
