Marie Kremer, Belgian actress, appeared in Costa-Gavras’ film Le Couperet, Un village français, Profilage, and as the co-scenarist in L’Affaire Laura Stern.

How did you approach the issue of forced suicide, which you address, of course, in the final scene?

Marie Kremer: Including forced suicide significantly increases the femicide rate. While working on coercive control, we also realized that coercive control is still very rarely addressed in the courts, and forced suicide is entirely part of that dynamic. For a long time, those cases were not counted in the statistics. Now that they are, the femicide rate rises considerably. For us, discovering that—and really becoming fully aware of it—changed quite a lot, at least for me personally, especially in the final episode.

Do you remember how the subject came into your process? Did you look into the debates and the controversies it provoked? Is it something you examined closely?

Marie Kremer: We looked into it because it allowed us to rethink the final episode—everything that happens in relation to the justice system. But it wasn’t our main focus. Still, realizing that it affected the statistics was very important for us. I can’t answer in great detail on that specific point, because........

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