Alongside Salma Hayek, Léa Seydoux, Angelina Jolie, Rose McGowan, Ashley Judd, Asia Argento and Emma de Caunes, she helped break a heavy silence around sexual violence in the world of cinema. This Thursday, July 23, almost three years after the boom in #MeToo movement, triggered by the scandal Harvey Weinstein, Eva Green confided without taboo on the harassment that the deposed producer subjected him to. “I am not one of the first to speak. But we were so scared ! He was untouchable and his power was immense“, recalled the 40-year-old actress in an interview with the magazine Madame Figaro. If she had been able to defend herself against the ex-leader of Miramax, she was nonetheless touched.
“I was traumatized and I spent a lot of time running away from it: it was absolutely necessary to avoid it, and I was going on a trip as soon as he asked me“, says the daughter of Marlène Jobert. Unsuccessful attempts, according to her. “The more you resisted him, the more he was excited – mentally ill. Our roads no longer crossed.” From now on, Eva Green welcomes the women’s revolt, a direct consequence of the affair Harvey Weinstein, as well as that of minorities, which gained in importance after the assassination of George Floyd. “It is very healthy. We must constantly continue fighting. I have the impression that women are listened to more, more believed, that there are fewer obstacles to lodge a complaint, for example.“
23 years of imprisonment
When the tongues were untied, Eva Green had privileged a silence of marble, leaving the floor Marlène Jobert. The latter has lifted the veil on the ordeal suffered by her daughter on the airwaves of Europe 1. “My daughter Eva was the victim of this horrible guy… He is tenacious, he insisted for several months, as soon as he passed Paris, he called her“, she said.”She was not responding (…) She was a little intimidated, this guy had so much power! Power over all the cinema! He must have put so many sticks in his wheels, because he was upset.“
Proven, Eva Green had preferred to forget this hell. Fortunately, justice has been done. March 11, 2020, after decades of impunity, the Manhattan Criminal Court, New York, recognized Harvey Weinstein guilty of sexual assault and rape. The ex-production mogul was sentenced to 23 years of imprisonment before being charged, a month later, with another sexual assault case in a Los Angeles prosecutor’s file … and contracting the coronavirus.
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