Depardieu “did not attack the great actresses, rather the little assistants”, according to Sophie Marceau

Back on the stages of Bouffes Parisiens since the beginning of December, Sophie Marceau plays the leading female role in La Note, by Audrey Schebat, alongside François Berléand. In a duo interview given to Paris Match, the La Boum actress was questioned about the comments she made this summer in the columns of Le Monde about Gérard Depardieu. She told how the filming of the film Police de Pialat had been complicated and how the actor had tried to humiliate her when she was only 19 years old. Sophie Marceau recalls: “I said publicly at the time that I could not stand his attitude, which was rude and very inappropriate. A lot of people then turned against me, making me look like a little pest.” She points out the hypocrisy of the world of the 7th art: “Now, with the relentlessness he knows, it would be too easy. Because everyone laughed with him, everyone loved him for it, everyone applauded him for who he was. And everyone thought it was normal!”

François Berléand objects to him that no actress who emerged at the same time as Gérard Depardieu condemns him. “Oh but, he didn’t attack the big actresses,” reacts Sophie Marceau, “rather the little assistants… Vulgarity and provocation have always been his stock in trade.” In Le Monde, she had already mentioned the actor's wandering hands. “He never dared to touch me in front of the team,” she then clarified, “otherwise he would have received my fist in the face. But with the poor dressers…” “Today, they accuse him of what they praised him for. I'm not going to give him the perch or bury him. I was asked so many times to testify against him everywhere. I obviously didn’t.” affirms the one who “always refused films with him” after Police.

In an interview with Society magazine in 2015, when she was a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival, the actress was, however, even more severe: "He's a predator, Depardieu," she said, "we must 'he eats everything and everyone'.