2023-12-24 16:29:22
His silence speaks volumes. Actress Judith Godrèche found herself very emotional this Saturday evening on the set of the show “Quelle Epoch”, broadcast on France 2.
Invited on the occasion of the release of her mini-series entitled “Icon of the French Cinema”, in which she looks back on her beginnings in the industry, she once again spoke about her relationship with director Benoît Jacquot, who began then that she was only 14 years old. The César-winning director was then 40 years old. At the age of 16, she had left the family home to live with him.
“There is a form of awareness that moves me”
Léa Salamé then asked her to rewatch a television interview from 1990 in which she was interviewed alongside the director on the occasion of the release of the film “La Désenchantée”. At that time, Judith Godrèche was just 18 years old. In this sequence, she talks about her role: “She is still a child-adolescent, she is passing the stage of adolescent-woman. (…) She experiences in three days what others experience in a year, two years, three years…”
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Back on set, the actress is moved to tears. After a few seconds of silence and dried tears, she jokes by saying: “It’s the first time in my life that I’ve cried on TV, it’s done.” “It’s very special because I only saw these images again very, very recently,” she explains.
But she also returned to the “awareness” that is hers today: “Through the promotion of this series, the women I meet, the generation of my daughter, the generation of Alma Struve who plays my child role in the series, through them, what they perceive and what they understand and also their perception of consent (…) that there is a form of awareness that moves me. (…) It was so buried in me.”
“It’s quite violent”
The view taken by the younger generation, that of her 18-year-old daughter in particular, gave rise to an awareness for the actress of the fact that she was at the time under the influence of the director who gave her her luck at the cinema: “It’s quite violent, (…) you have to go through that,” she sums up on the set of “Quelle époque”.
In a long interview with the magazine Elle published on December 8, the 51-year-old actress had already returned to this relationship and her change of point of view towards her daughter: “If a 40-year-old man approaches my daughter, I will kill him. It’s because I have a teenage daughter that I manage to realize what happened to me, to tell myself that I navigated alone in a world without rules or laws.”
“I want to denounce, but without settling scores. (…) No one, not an adult, made a sign to me, gave me a look, or warned me then. Therefore, I didn’t even know that it was possible to say no, that I had the right to do so,” she explained this Wednesday in our columns.
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