“I worked a lot with him, I never had the slightest problem” assures Nathalie Baye. The actress reacted to the accusations made against her “friend” on France Inter on Monday December 11 and on BFMTV on Tuesday morning. Accusations which increased with the broadcast of the program Complément d’investigation, Thursday December 7.
The actress is one of the few to support the actor. “Gérard Depardieu is one of the actors I have played with the most, I started with him, he is someone I really like (…) I don’t know where the truth is” she explains to BFMTV. The actress has often found herself on the bill with the actor: The Return of Martin Guerre (1982), Rive Droite, Rive Gauche (1984), Michou d’Auber (2005), Je n’ai rien forgot (2010 ). “I don’t know this man we’re talking about,” she concludes.
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A national icon in the same way as Alain Delon or Brigitte Bardot, known throughout the world, Gérard Depardieu has long seemed to benefit from a certain indulgence. And this, even after his indictment for rape, in 2020, following a complaint from an actress then aged around twenty, Charlotte Arnould.
In a sequence from Supplementary Investigation, filmed five years earlier in North Korea, the man Anouk Grinberg described as a “sacred monster” multiplies misogynistic and insulting remarks while addressing women, not sparing a little girl of his obscene remarks. The extract is circulating on social networks and several public figures were quick to react. In the program broadcast on France 2, the public also discovered that a new complaint for rape and a second complaint for sexual assault was filed against him by the actress Hélène Darras, for facts dating back to 2007 on a set.
