Adèle Haenel and her coming out: her declaration of love in the middle of the ceremony

In 2014, Adèle Haenel received her very first César. On the stage of the Théâtre du Châtelet, during the 39th edition of the event – long before the controversy resounded , the actress had won the award for best supporting role for the film Suzanne, by Katell Quillévéré. Her trophy in hand, in full speech, the young woman had expressed her pride, tried to stifle a sob and found the strength to declare her love for the woman of her life. It was, then, his official media coming-out.

The chosen one of her heart, at the time, was a certain director whom you know well. “I wanted to thank Celine [Sciamma, NDLR]… Because I love him“, she proclaimed modestly, at the microphone installed on the boards. However, this sentence had gone relatively unnoticed. Adèle Haenel having been revealed in the film birth of octopuses, some perhaps thought of a frank camaraderie, expressed on the evening of the Caesars. “I do things on my scale. The funny thing is that after the Caesar ceremony, it’s as if no one has heard, she remembered, a few weeks later, in the columns of the magazine Stubborn. I said to myself so much the better, I don’t want to talk about it …

I don’t want to be a flag bearer

However, she represented the love between two women in the fairest, purest way, in 2019 in the excellent Portrait of the girl on fire. Or the struggle for equality, again, in 120 beats per minute in 2017. But outside of film sets, Adèle Haenel did not necessarily need to carry the entire LGBTQ + community on her shoulders. “I don’t want to go into the intimate, it gets me drunk, she added. I don’t want to be a flag bearer, I want to make films and cinema more than to play politics, but it’s still mixed. “

Today, Adèle Haenel and Céline Sciamma are separated. On the romantic level at least. However, we are impatiently waiting to find their fantastic professional collaborations on the big screen …

Find Adèle Haenel in the film “Suzanne”, on arte, January 5, 2022.

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