“Certain songs by Gainsbourg”: Laurent Lafitte kicks the #MeToo anthill

Invited onto the set of Clique to promote his latest film, Laurent Lafitte did not hesitate to émention the #MeToo movement.

© Bestimage Invited onto the set of Clique to promote his latest film, Laurent Lafitte did not hesitate to émention the #MeToo movement.

IN BRIEF

• Laurent Lafitte plays in 'The Fourth Wall' by David Oelhoffen, whose plot takes place in Beirut in 1982.
• Invited onto the set of Clique, the actor was questioned about the #MeToo movement.
• And he doesn't hesitate to take a very striking example.

Laurent Lafitte is back in a new film. With The Fourth Wall by David Oelhoffen, the actor plays a director whose goal is to stage the play Antigone and perform it at Beirut in 1982. Inspired by the book by Sorj Chalandon, the story places the actor in a dramatic register.

Having filmed on location, in a geographical area plagued by war, Laurent Lafitte says he was able to draw inspiration from this atmosphere to transcribe it in the film: ”I was told that the city has changed little. You just have to look at the walls, there are bullet impacts, teverything is there, you know. Unfortunately for this city, the civil war is very easy to recreate, and then we also filmed in a Palestinian camp…”, he confides à our colleagues from 20 Minutes. 

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Laurent Lafitte talks about his vision of #MeToo

On the occasion of the promotion of this feature film, the actor was present on the set of Clique, on Canal+. The opportunity to discuss his career, but also the #MeToo movement, which has allowed both women and men to speak out. “We often say 'Those were the days, the days were like that'. But I knew that time, I was their age, I was 14, 15, 16, and at home, at least in my family, çthat didn't go down well at all, that kind of story,” he confides.

And he gives a concrete example: “Even just some Gainsbourg songs. At home, my parents were rather fans, but they didn't really understand, you know. So we can't put it down to just one era, there are also individual responsibilities.”

The actor doesn't hesitate to say out loud what he thinks

In 2020, Laurent Lafitte was interviewed by our colleagues at Madame Figaro. An interview in which he mentions his definition of man or how the #MeToo movement has impacted his life: “In a way, yes, because I broached topics with my friends that I didn't broach before. I had an awareness of objective facts like the inequality of wages, but this movement pushed me to start to the place of women to better understand them”, he confided.

“When suffering is verbalized, it is because it is real. The challenge is therefore to listen, to change, but to remain oneself in one's freedom, in one's humor”. Laurent Lafitte thus hopes that things can change for all sexes.