“It’s a mini-rape, you feel like sh…”
As the Franco-Belgian series HPI returns to the screen, the actress who plays the character of Morgane Alvaro looks back on the start of her career and, in the context of the MeToo movement, on a scene that particularly marked her.
Audrey Fleurot confides in an interview with Le Parisien. "I had an experience during a love scene that didn't go as it was written in the script. I said: 'But, am I going to end up with his sex on my buttocks live because nothing was planned?' They answered me: 'Are you an actress or not? We're not going to spend the night here'". A scathing response, which strongly shook the artist. "When you go home, you're like a piece of shit, you feel like something was stolen from you. It's a mini-rape, methods that, a priori, no longer exist. The next day, you hate the director and the production manager tells you that the scene will not be edited. So, there was no need. Just a roundabout way of possessing you. All that was normal."
She also adds that she should have reacted and imposed her "no". "With MeToo, we experienced something essential. In companies, where employees rub shoulders for years, the omerta must be crazy".
Audrey Fleurot explains that, since MeToo, there is what is called an intimacy coordinator in cinema. The latter is supposed to "choreograph the love scenes". Nevertheless, the actress, although recognizing the interest of this intermediary for the new generation of actresses, feels embarrassed by tit. "I prefer to talk with my partner, the director", she specifies. "All this is the sign of an old world that we're getting rid of. We need a revolution and heads roll, sometimes excessively, but we can't make a revolution without it".
(MH with NiNa - Source: RTBF/Parisien - Picture: Audrey Fleurot at the premiere of the film "La Confrérie des larmes" by Georges Biard via Wikicommons under license Creative commons CC-BY-SA-3.0)