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Actor Judith Godrèche urges French film industry to face up to sexual abuse
Star tells audience at prestigious César awards that they need to challenge powerful and abusive men whatever the career risk
Judith Godrèche has urged the French film industry to break its omertà on sexual abuse in an unprecedented address to the country’s most prestigious awards ceremony on Friday evening. In December, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, defended actor Gérard Depardieu, who faces multiple allegations of sexual assault and one of rape, suggesting he was the victim of what amounted to a “witch-hunt”. In 2018, after #MeToo took off across the Atlantic, 99 prominent French women – including screen legend Catherine Deneuve – signed a letter accusing the campaign of intolerance and puritanism and arguing for the right of men to repeatedly hit on someone even when unwelcome.
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