Case Harvey Weinstein : Michel Hazanavicius, the director of ” The Artist “, says he was not aware Gala

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As the director of the film The Artist, Michel Hazanavicius is one of the rare French to have worked with the american producer Harvey Weinstein. Today, on Facebook, he posts a long message to explain why he had not reacted earlier to the sex scandal in which is plunged the ex-boss of Hollywood.

The case is Weinstein not finished not to run out of ink. At A time when actors, actresses, directors and politicians take a stand against the american producer of 65 years, the French director Michel Hazanavicius, him, has, until now, preferred to keep silence. Monday, 16 October, the husband of Berenice Béjo has finally decided to take the floor in order that his silence should not be equated to an implicit support to Harvey Weinstein. On Facebook, it confirms first of all have attended the american producer during the promotion of his film” The Artist in the United States. However, it states not to have ” known that Dr. Jekyll “, the public side of Harvey Weinstein. ” Neither his friend, nor a partouzeur patented, I’m past all that. As for Berenice, he has never lacked respect , “says the filmmaker. In order that there is not the slightest ambiguity in his remarks, Michel Hazanavicius written so in black and white: “I was absolutely not aware of these intrigues, and, at the risk of pretending to be a big naive, not even rumors. “

Once this aspect is clarified, the accomplice of Jean Dujardin goes even further with his speech. If it ensures on the one hand not to have had wind of the activities of Harvey Weinstein, he took the opportunity also to clarify ” not ever having been a direct witness of this kind of behaviour “, as well in France as abroad. If it is all the same aware that such attitudes exist throughout the world, he thinks simply to have been lucky during his career. “I worked with normal people, the fact of being a human I was of course protected, but I’m a little scared when I read all these comments “. Determined that the actions of a man not fading not the reputation of a profession, as a whole, Michel Hazanavicius address a final message to his readers. “I’m may be not in the sphere of the ‘predators’ but I do not recognize myself in the description that some of my professional environment. The overwhelming majority of people that I have worked with are good people. Normal people.“ To conclude, it is believed, therefore, that ” the behavior of Harvey is not a symptom of how does the cinema, but of how certain men of power. “

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