French actress Adèle Haenel leaves the cinema in rebellion against the “complacency” of an industry that protects sexual aggressors.
“I’m leaving, I’m going on strike, I’m joining my comrades for whom the search for meaning and dignity takes precedence over that of money and power”, she announced in a bitter letter to the place. from the world of cinema published in the French weekly Telerama.
She condemns “the generalized complacency of the profession vis-à-vis sexual aggressors and, more generally, the way in which this milieu collaborates with the deadly racist ecocide order of the world as it is. »
The actress retired from the screens after the Césars ceremony in 2020, during which director Roman Polanski, accused by more than a dozen women of sexual misconduct, won the prize for best director for his film. I accuse. “It’s a shame, shame! “Adèle Haenel was indignant as she left the room.
Three years later, she denounces the hypocrisy of an industry that “capitalizes” social struggles “on our backs without giving any strength to our movement. “I say it again: SHAME”, she is scandalized.
Adèle Haenel will participate in a show at the Festival TransAmériques, presented from May 31 to June 3 at Usine C, in Montreal. She will lend her voice to puppets in Gisèle Vienne’s play.