French actor Gerard Depardieu, 74, famous for his filmsAsterix and Obelix”, According to the report, French actress Hélène Darras accused him of sexual assault during the filming of the 2007 film Disco, in which the actor was one of the main characters. The keeper.
Hélène Darras claims that Gerard Depardieu groped her several times and the actor invited her into his dressing room.
“He looked at me like I was a piece of meat,” the actress said in an interview with the French program. Addition to Enquête. “He walked towards me and then ran his hand over my thighs and buttocks,” he added.
The actress’s complaint came years later because she was afraid it would have negative consequences professionally: “I was an extra. I didn’t even graduate from drama school. I really wanted to be an actress,” she explained.
In 2018, French actress Charlotte Arnoux said that she was raped by the actor in the summer of 2018, but Gerard Depardieu denied the accusations and the case is now under investigation.
In May 2023, investigative news site Mediapart, published detailed accounts from 13 women who said they were sexually assaulted by the actor. Depardieu once again denied the accusations and stated in an open letter published in a French newspaper. Le Figaro in October 2023, “without ever raping a woman.”