“I only asked to grow up peacefully”: Isabelle Carré responds to the platform in support of Gérard Depardieu

A forum, 56 signatories and a flood of reactions. On December 25, Le Figaro published an article signed by around fifty cultural figures who affirm their support for Gérard Depardieu. Since then, the networks have been on fire, and the MeToo Media collective, Ségolène Royal and Lucie Lucas have reacted by expressing their exasperation. Tuesday, December 26, Isabelle Carré took up her pen in the columns of Elle magazine to denounce, in the context of this affair, sexist and sexual violence against women.

In this text entitled “I only asked to grow up peacefully”, Isabelle Carré looks back on the attacks she suffered in her life, and more particularly on the first one, when she was still a child: “I was 11 years old and a man stopped me in the street for information, I thought. To my great surprise, it involved touching and commenting on my birth chest: “It’s growing, eh little girl, it’s growing!” Stunned, I didn't move, so he continued..., she says. I wasn't looking for anything, I say this because it seems to be decisive for some, I wasn't asking for anything, not even a role. Just to grow up peacefully. »

Isabelle Carré then discusses the Depardieu affair without naming the actor. “Isn't it surprising that you have to wait fifty years to tell an actor that his behavior with assistants, dressers, his partners is not acceptable, even under the pretext of being silly?” asks Isabelle Carré.

While she welcomes some progress - for example the creation of harassment referent positions on film sets - Isabelle Carré insists on the loneliness of women which will persist, according to her, "despite the books of Vanessa Springora or Lola Lafon, despite the posts

The actress concludes her column with a proposal. She would like to reformulate the slogan of the campaign launched by the government in 2023, entitled “sexism, we don’t always know how it starts, but we know how it ends”. “For 2024 and the years to come, I suggest a more voluntary formula, free of any suspense: “Sexism, we know very well how it begins, and it is high time for it to end!””