So, which of the two is acting? On the second day of Gérard Depardieu's trial, on Tuesday, March 25, the court delved into the examination of the allegations that one of the two plaintiffs, Amélie (she wishes to remain anonymous), is accusing the defendant of. The 76-year-old actor and the 54-year-old set designer gave two radically different versions of what happened on September 10, 2021, in the Paris apartment where the film Les Volets Verts (The Green Shutters) was being shot. Amélie says she was sexually assaulted; Depardieu says she was verbally assaulted and simply told off for not doing her job properly. One version of events or the other: One of them took the stand on Tuesday and told the judges nonsense.

Depardieu spoke first, perched on a rehearsal cube that served as his elevated seat – the benches in the courtroom are too low for his joints. It's precisely the chair on which he was sitting during the shooting, at the time of the events of which he is accused. He didn't know Amélie, having just met her that day. He at first thought that this "slightly beautiful" woman who was looking at him "strangely" was the owner of the apartment, before realizing she was part of the film crew. The actor described a conversation that turned sour with this set designer who, in his eyes, was doing her job badly.

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