"They can no longer live": Bardot gives her support to Nicolas Bedos and Gérard Depardieu

"Feminism is not my thing. I like guys," Brigitte Bardot declared on Monday, May 12, in an interview with BFMTV , her first on television in 11 years, in which she defended actors Nicolas Bedos and Gérard Depardieu , accused of sexual assault.

The former French film star, who has been off the set for over fifty years, believes that "those with talent who put their hands on a girl's bottom are thrown into the ditch." "We could at least let them get on with their lives," she argues from her home in Saint-Tropez. While she is told that justice must do its job, she comments: "After what happened to them, they won't find much work."

This isn't the first time the 90-year-old former star has taken an anti-feminist stance. In the wake of the Weinstein affair and the #MeToo movement in 2018, she criticized the wave of actresses reporting harassment, calling it "hypocritical, ridiculous, and pointless."

French actor and director Nicolas Bedos was sentenced in October to one year in prison, six months of which were suspended, for sexual assaults on two women in 2023. Gérard Depardieu, meanwhile, is awaiting the verdict of his trial. The actor is accused of sexual assaults on two women during a film shoot. The verdict is due on Tuesday, May 13. At the end of March, the prosecutor's office had requested an 18-month suspended prison sentence for the actor, considering that the attacks denounced by the two women were indeed "intentional."

In recent years, the 71-year-old actor has been accused of sexual assault by around twenty women. Several cases have been dismissed due to the statute of limitations. French actress Charlotte Arnould filed a rape complaint in 2018. The Paris prosecutor's office has requested a trial against the actor.

In the same interview, Brigitte Bardot also returned to the issue of animal rights. The nonagenarian is calling for a ban on hunting with hounds. The Viva Maria! actress said it was her "last fight."