In an interview with “Parisien”, the 80-year-old director rejects the allegations made by Judith Godrèche, Isild le Besco, Anna Mouglalis and Jessica Tharaud. He declares himself a victim of “lies” and now says he is “socially dead.”
His argument is prepared and he has his “Papers in hand.” This is how 80-year-old Jacques Doillon introduced himself maintenance of Parisian published on Wednesday, April 10th. In this interview, the director talks about the allegations of rape, assault and sexual harassment made against him by four women, which he believes are false.
At the beginning of February, Judith Godrèche filed a complaint against the filmmaker for “rape of a fifteen-year-old minor by an authority figure”. In the complaint, she describes events that allegedly occurred at the filmmaker’s home, where she was invited as a 14-year-old girl to try out for a role in the film. the fifteen year old girl. On February 8th at the microphone of France Inter, She also reported a sexual assault that allegedly took place on the set of this film : “Suddenly, [Jacques Doillon] decides that there is a love scene, a sex scene between him and me. And there we do 45 takes. And I take off my sweater and I’m shirtless and he’s touching me and making out with me.
Jacques Doillon assures him “I’ve never had an intimate relationship” with Judith Godrèche, and that nothing happened to her “neither in an office nor anywhere else”. As for the sex scene, he replies that it was scripted and claims to have done so “probably 7 or 8” taken, but not “45”not even “20”, as Jane Birkin, his partner at the time, wrote in her autobiography. Anyway, this one “had a tendency to exaggerate and was deeply jealous,” he emphasizes.
On February 22, following an Instagram post from Judith Godrèche, Jacques Doillon announced that he was filing a defamation lawsuit. The day before, the actress had published – and commented on – an article on Instagram Telerama : «In 2022, this newspaper writes that Doillon’s specialty is filming with children. One sentence is missing: “Who is he sleeping with?”“”. An explanation”disgusting and [qui] “beyond the imagination”said Marie Dosé, lawyer for Jacques Doillon.
“It’s a story that she makes up or that someone suggests to her”
Given in this interview ParisianIn an interview on February 21st, the director also returns to Isild Le Besco’s allegations. in the Parisian. According to the actress, Jacques Doillon took away a role from her after she rejected his advances when she was only 17 years old. The filmmaker has a completely different version: he would have taken the role away from Isild Le Besco after he found out she had lied about her schedule. On the advances the director allegedly made towards him: “It’s a story that she makes up or that someone suggests to her.”
Sexual violence in the cinema
In the columns of moons, Anna Mouglalis had accused him of forcibly kissing her on the mouth at home while her companion Samuel Benchetrit was in the next room. Jacques Doillon also refutes this story “doesn’t hold” since the events she described took place in a stairwell while he was sleeping on the ground floor. “Why would I have gone upstairs to try to kiss Anna in front of the door to the room where Samuel, who was my boyfriend, was?” He adds that he thinks so“Anna was jealous of [sa] Girl who had just filmed with Samuel. Or that she was pressured by others to say something that didn’t happen.
“Marketing to sell your failed series”
On the subject of Jessica Théraud, who accuses Jacques Doillon of touching her breasts in her hotel room at the Dunkirk festival in 1992, when she was 14 years old, the director ultimately only has one sentence left: “Jessica, who follows Judith Godrèche’s call to testify 35 years after the filming 15 year old girlIt’s just absurd.”
This interview can be found in its entirety on the website Parisian, says Jacques Doillon “socially dead”and denounces the indefinite suspension of his film CM2, which he is still hoping for publication “as Judith Godrèche’s League of Virtues, which mainly does marketing to sell its failed series [ndlr : «Icon of French Cinema»]will stop spreading fear.” He thinks he’s on the blacklist “The big cinema family”he goes “I’m trying to do bad things as an amateur outside of the entertainment industry.”
