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13-05-2025
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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'
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. More from Deadline Cannes Jury President Juliette Binoche On Trump's Movie & TV Tariffs: 'He's Fighting To Save America And To Save His Ass' Cannes Chief Thierry Frémaux Addresses Trump's Tariffs: 'Cinema Always Finds A Way Of Existing & Reinventing Itself' 'Jigsaw', 'Winchester' & 'Daybreakers' Duo The Spierig Brothers Line Up Genre Movie 'Headless'; Altitude Launching For Cannes Market One reporter pressing Binoche called The Green Shutters and Green Card actor a 'sacred monster and wonderful guy in the cinema who had reputation and so much power.' 'He's not a sacred monster, he's a man who lost his aura owing to facts that occurred and were looked at by a court,' retorted Binoche. 'He is no longer sacred as is the case now,' added the Unbearable Lightness of Being actress. At the top of the presser, Binoche spoke about how Cannes is certainly in synch with the times, in particular #MeToo. Depardieu's verdict is also seen as a landmark #MeToo test case in France, which was slow to embrace the movement. 'The festival is following this trend in social and political life. There have been great changes occurring in the world; sometimes it follows the trend, sometimes it spearheads it. I think the festival is in step with what's happening today. #MeToo took some time to gain strength. We reacted very strongly recently,' Binoche added. Depardieu's sentence follows a tumultuous trial in Paris in March relating to accusations of groping on the set of Jean Becker's The Green Shutters in 2021. The actor has had at least 20 public allegations of sexually inappropriate behavior against him, going back decades. Today's sentence is related to assaults on two female crew members during production of The Green Shutters. The actor has repeatedly denied both accounts saying his actions were misinterpreted. Best of Deadline Everything We Know About Ari Aster's 'Eddington' So Far Everything We Know About 'Nobody Wants This' Season 2 So Far List Of Hollywood & Media Layoffs From Paramount To Warner Bros Discovery To CNN & More
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13-05-2025
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Juliette Binoche Dodges Question About Cinema Figures' Gaza Open Letter At Cannes Press Conference
When Cannes Film Festival Jury President Juliette Binoche was asked today why she didn't sign a global film industry open letter condemning the 'silence' over the deadly impact of Israel's ongoing military campaign in Gaza; The English Patient Oscar winner told a reporter 'I cannot answer you.' 'You will maybe understand it a little later,' the actress said. More from Deadline Cannes Jury President Juliette Binoche On Trump's Movie & TV Tariffs: "He's Fighting To Save America And To Save His Ass" 'Jigsaw', 'Winchester' & 'Daybreakers' Duo The Spierig Brothers Line Up Genre Movie 'Headless'; Altitude Launching For Cannes Market 'Sons Of The Neon Night' Clip: A Family Empire Falls Into Chaos In Snow-Covered Hong Kong In Cannes Midnight Screenings Feature Binoche at this afternoon's Cannes jury press conference was asked by Al Jazeera English about the open letter that was released on the eve of the festival with signatures from more than 350 cinema world figures including Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon and Javier Bardem. 'In Cannes, the horror Gaza must not be silenced,' read the letter. Binoche was questioned on why she did not sign the letter herself, despite being 'well-known for speaking out about a variety of causes.' After a long hesitation, she refused to answer but insisted that there was a reason for her decision. The letter, published on the website of France's Libération newspaper on Monday evening, was addressed 'For Fatem', in memory of 25-year-old Gaza artist and photojournalist Fatima Hassouna. The young woman was killed in an Israeli airstrike in mid-April just 24 hours after it was announced that Sepideh Farsi's documentary Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk, exploring Hassouna's life in the Gaza Strip, would world premiere in the parallel Cannes section ACID. Ten of her relatives, including her pregnant sister, were killed in same strike. Politics, particularly on the global scale, have always found a place here at Cannes, and today Binoche also fielded queries about Donald Trump's possible film and TV import tariffs as well as the latest guilty verdict dispensed in a Paris court to her Let the Sunshine In co-star Gérard Depardieu for sexual assault on the set of Jean Becker's The Green Shutters in 2021. Binoche's jury members at the 78th Cannes include Halle Berry, Payal Kapadia, Alba Rohrwacher, Leïla Slimani, Dieudo Hamadi, Hong Sangsoo, Carlos Reygadas and Jeremy Strong. Best of Deadline Everything We Know About Ari Aster's 'Eddington' So Far Everything We Know About 'Nobody Wants This' Season 2 So Far List Of Hollywood & Media Layoffs From Paramount To Warner Bros Discovery To CNN & More
