Samuel Theis, who performed the husband of Sandra Hüller’s character in Justine Triet’s Golden Globe-winning movie “Anatomy of a Fall,” was ousted from the shoot of his third directorial outing, “Je te jure,” after being accused of rape by a crew member, Selection has confirmed. For the rest of manufacturing, Theis remained on location however directed the movie remotely.

The alleged sexual assault befell midway by means of the shoot, within the aftermath of a celebration held at an condominium with the solid and crew on July 1, in accordance with the French newspaper Liberation. The crew member spent the night time within the flat the place the occasion was held as a result of his state of inebriation and alleged he was raped by Theis within the early morning hours. The filmmaker, in the meantime, has argued that it was consensual, in accordance with Liberation.

Shortly after, the crew member determined to depart the shoot. “Je te jure” producer Caroline Bonmarchand informed Selection that after studying of the alleged incident, she tapped a third-party group to conduct an inner investigation inside the solid and crew. Throughout the ongoing probe, Bonmarchand held conferences to provide you with a preemptive answer, which was to take away Theis bodily from the set and have him direct it remotely. Theis would come within the morning earlier than the beginning of the shoot to put every part out and would go into one other room, Bonmarchand stated. Actors may come to him in the event that they wanted to, and Theis would talk with crew members by way of displays.

Bonmarchand, who has attended a workshop to stop sexual harassment and assault on set as a part of the Nationwide Movie Board’s guidelines to hunt subsidies, stated the protocol allowed the manufacturing to be accomplished regardless of the circumstances. Crew members had been additionally given the chance to talk to a psychologist.

The shoot ended later in July and, in accordance with Telerama journal, the crew member has since filed a police criticism towards Theis. However Theis’ legal professional, Marie Dosé, informed Selection she isn’t conscious of an official criticism and hasn’t been contacted about an ongoing investigation. On the time of publication, Selection was unable to entry the criticism.

“The one investigation on this case was ordered by the manufacturing and carried out by an unbiased group. It was delivered in September and it was 300 pages lengthy — the conclusion is that there have been no components qualifying what occurred of a sexual assault,” Dosé stated in an announcement. She added that the report included a witness who had entered the bed room Theis and the accuser had been in and described it as a “tender second.”

“Je te jure” stars a number of non-professional actors, in addition to main French stars corresponding to Marina Foïs and Louise Bourgoin. Bonmarchand is one in every of France’s greatest identified producers. Her firm, Avenue B Productions, is behind plenty of current hits, together with Sebastien Marnier’s “The Origin of Evil.”