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Director and producer Claude Lelouch caused outrage on social networks by making sexist comments on the CNews set on November 13.
MEDIA – Lunar remarks that shocked social networks. In the show Professional Time of Pascal PraudClaude Lelouch held on November 13 sexist remarks by evoking his notion of the couple. This Friday, November 15, he apologized in a message posted on his X account.
“On a television set, I explained for half an hour that women had made me grow, that I owed them everything, that love came through admiration. All my life I have repeated that women are successful men”writes the director in reference to the sequence of the show of CNews. But the author ofA man and a woman or Station novel denounces “statements taken out of context repeated everywhere”which has “deeply saddened”.
Claude Lelouch therefore wanted to apologize while reaffirming his vision of things: “I have always respected women, those to whom I have dedicated 51 films, and even more so in my last. My clumsy words hurt, I ask your forgiveness,” he then wrote.
Women compared to objects
His comments were embarrassing even on the CNews set, although he was not shy of discriminatory speeches. “When I say that we are faithful until we find something better, it’s true whether it’s for a car, a woman, a fridge, anything…” had in fact declared the producer before continuing: “ Married women should thank mistresses. Very often, when we go somewhere else, we are happy to come home.” Pascal Praud also reacted with a little embarrassed laugh.
A vision of the couple and gender roles from another time which pushed Internet users to talk about misogyny and the trivialization of sexism. “It’s sickeningly sexist. Worthy of bold humor from the 70s »for example, reacted a user of X.
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