Brigitte Bardot defends actors who 'grab a girl's bottom' on eve of Gerard Depardieu's verdict for sexual assault

French movie prima Brigitte Bardot has defended actors who 'grab a girl's bottom' conscionable 1 time earlier Gérard Depardieu is owed to person the verdict of his intersexual battle trial. 

Depardieu, 76, who has appeared successful implicit 200 films and tv series, is facing charges of sexually assaulting 2 women during a 2021 movie sprout - which helium denies.

The Count Of Monte Cristo histrion has been accused of improper behaviour by astir 20 women, but this is the archetypal lawsuit to scope trial.

Ms Bardot, 90, besides defended French histrion and manager Nicolas Bedos, who was recovered blameworthy successful October 2024 of sexually assaulting 2 women. 

In her archetypal interrogation successful 11 years, Ms Bardot told BFMTV: 'Feminism is not my thing. People with endowment who drawback a girl's bottommost are thrown into the bottommost of the ditch. We could astatine slightest fto them transportation connected living. They can't unrecorded immoderate more.'

The actress, who was erstwhile an planetary enactment awesome earlier retiring successful 1973, believes those men 'won't find overmuch work' aft nationalist backlash.

Ms Bardot made her breakthrough successful 1952 successful the movie The Girl In The Bikini and became 1 of the astir celebrated French postwar movie stars.

She once starred alongside Depardieu successful the 1972 drama movie The Annuity.

French President Emmanuel Macron came nether occurrence successful 2023 aft helium praised Depardieu arsenic a large histrion and described him arsenic the people of a 'manhunt'.

Ms Bardot's views look to align with the different older members of the French movie manufacture who cull what they spot arsenic an American-inspired puritan intolerance of flirtation. 

Actress Catherine Deneuve, 81, signed a substance on with 100 different women successful 2018 which defended men's 'freedom to bother' women arsenic indispensable to seduction. 

Ms Bardot has antecedently called the accusations enactment guardant by actresses against men 'hypocritical, ridiculous and without interest'.

After grounds from 140 people, a French parliamentary enquiry past period concluded intersexual unit remained 'systematic, endemic and persistent' successful the French arts world.

Erwan Balanant, the centrist MP who headed the inquiry, said: 'The strategy is simply a nutrient grinder that consumes people.'

Depardieu's proceedings revolves astir accusations of intersexual battle during the filming of Les Volets Verts (The Green Shutters) successful 2021, directed by Jean Becker.

Two pistillate - a 54-year-old acceptable dresser and a 34-year-old adjunct manager - assertion Depardieu subjected them to intersexual unit connected set.

Prominent French histrion Anouk Grinberg, who besides starred successful the film, has publically supported the accusers, claiming Depardieu routinely made 'salacious remarks' during filming. She has accused producers of knowingly 'hiring an abuser'.

The acceptable dresser alleged the histrion was openly making crude remarks connected set, and astatine 1 constituent loudly complained helium 'couldn't adjacent get it up' due to the fact that of the heat.

She claimed helium boasted helium could 'give women an orgasm without touching them' and that an hr aboriginal Depardieu 'brutally grabbed' her.

The histrion pinned her by 'closing his legs' astir her earlier groping her waist and her stomach, continuing up to her breasts, she added.

She said Depardieu made 'obscene remarks' including: 'Come and interaction my large parasol. I'll instrumentality it successful your p****.'

She described the actor's bodyguards dragging him distant arsenic helium shouted: 'We'll spot each different again, my dear.' 

The 2nd accuser, the adjunct director, has besides accused Depardieu of intersexual violence, though details of her allegations person not yet been made public. 

In August 2024, French prosecutors called for movie prima Depardieu to basal proceedings for raping a young histrion implicit 2 days astatine his Paris home.

The alleged victim, Charlotte Arnould, present 29, claims she was raped and sexually assaulted by Depardieu successful August 2018.

A root moving with Paris prosecutors said it was 'requested that Gérard Depardieu beryllium referred to the departmental transgression tribunal to beryllium tried for rape by integer penetration and intersexual battle connected August 7 and 13, 2018.'

The probe has been going connected for a afloat six years, with grounds including CCTV footage of Depardieu performing a enactment enactment connected Ms Arnould astatine his mansion successful August 2018.

Carine Durrieu-Diebolt, Ms Arnould's lawyer, said the petition for proceedings was 'the effect of a agelong probe that made it imaginable to stitchery the elements that corroborate my client's words.'

Ms Durrieu-Diebolt added: 'For her, it is simply a immense measurement guardant afloat of hope, portion she waits for the bid of the investigating justice that volition adjacent the investigation.'

The ailment by Ms Arnoud was initially dismissed, but past reopened erstwhile further grounds emerged.

Counsel for Depardieu did not instantly respond to the telephone for a trial, but the Green Card and Last Metro prima has continually claimed that enactment with Ms Arnould was consensual.

In 2023, Depardieu broke his soundlessness implicit claims that helium is simply a serial enactment abuser saying: 'I americium neither a rapist nor a predator.'

Accusing enemies of subjecting him to a 'lynching' successful the media, helium expressed his choler successful an unfastened missive to the French press.

Ms Arnould renounced her ineligible close to anonymity astatine the extremity of 2021, pursuing Depardieu being charged with rape and intersexual assault.

Last year, a transgression enquiry was besides opened into the suspected termination of a French histrion who had accused Depardieu of intersexual violence.

It was feared that the past hours of Emmanuelle Debever, 60, whitethorn person been linked to the aggregate maltreatment accusations levelled by women against Depardieu.

She died connected December 7th - the nonstop time a caller documentary entitled Gérard Depardieu: The Fall of the Ogre was broadcast crossed France.

It contained disturbing details of an alleged onslaught by Depardieu connected Ms Debever, erstwhile she was inactive a teenager.

In December, different French histrion filed a ceremonial enactment onslaught ailment against Depardieu, saying helium treated her similar 'a portion of meat'.

Paris prosecutors confirmed that Hélène Darras, 43, reported Depardieu successful September.

The brace appeared unneurotic successful the 2007 movie Disco, erstwhile Darras was 26, and allegedly assaulted.

Waiving her ineligible close to anonymity, Ms Darras told the aforesaid Further Investigation (Complément d'enquete) documentary series: 'He [Depardieu] is unmanageable.

'He looks astatine maine arsenic if I were a portion of meat. I person an ultra-tight dress, helium pulls maine person to him by the waist, past helium runs his manus implicit my hips, implicit my bum.'

And successful December 2023, Spanish writer and writer Ruth Baza filed a ailment successful Spain against the histrion for rape, for acts dating backmost to 1995 successful Paris.