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Juliette Binoche On Gérard Depardieu’s Guilty Sexual Assault Verdict: “He’s Not A Sacred Monster, He’s A Man Who Lost His Aura” – Cannes
Cannes Film Festival Jury Head Juliette Binoche Responds to Gérard Depardieu's sexual assault guilt verdict.
(Photo by Tristan Fewings/Getty Images) It stands to reason that hours after Gérard Depardieu was found guilty of sexual assault and handed an 18-month suspended sentence, that his Let the Sunshine In co-star and Cannes Film Festival Jury President Juliette Binoche would be asked to weigh in on whether justice was served in regards to her French peer. Binoche was asked twice about Depardieu during this afternoon’s 78th Cannes Film Festival Jury press conference, the actress acknowledging that if it wasn’t for #MeToo, this would never have happened. Depardieu’s sentence follows a prolific tumultuous trial in Paris in March relating to accusations of groping on the set of Jean Becker’s The Green Shutters in 2021.
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