A project that was so close to her heart and that she carried alongside director Josée Dayan, Isabelle Adjani unveiled herself as Diane de Poitiers on France 2 on November 7, 2022, in the first part of this prestigious mini-series. historical. The actress came to talk about it shortly before in It’s up to you on France 5, despite her health being damaged by bronchiolitis which forced her to wear a mask on the set and which hid part of her luminous and timeless face. This did not prevent the one who is on the poster from Masquerade to talk about his work with passion, but also about social issues. This is how she wanted to come back to comments she made about the Iranian women’s fight and which were distorted by some.
Journalist Patrick Cohen recalled Isabelle Adjani’s feminist activism in It’s up to you, and her symbolic gesture of cutting a lock of hair in support of Iranian women forced to veil, the opportunity for the free woman that she is to clarify her words in an interview she had given on franceinfo: “I’ve been enough destabilized and enough dissatisfied moreover this morning to learn in the emission of Mr. Morandini that I called on the women to remove their veil. It’s absolutely ridiculous“, emphasizing that she called for a symbolic gesture above all. Then the mother of Barnabé and Gabriel-Kane adds: “I don’t know if it’s a syntax or semantics problem, but when I say on franceinfo, ‘I want to wait until the women who wear the veil can take it off’, and it becomes a call as if it’s was a political position, I find that ridiculous. I do not belong to any political party, I am not a philosopher, not an intellectualI am an actress on the other hand with a political consciousness like any citizen.” By the way, she is indignant against “this sensationalist journalism“who should be scrutinized by”an ethics committee at the CSA“.
franceinfo update
The franceinfo site itself updated its original article to clarify Isabelle Adjani’s thinking, which was in line with the support shown by many personalities such as Marion Cotillard, Julie Gayet and Carla Bruni- Sarkozy: “A first version of the title of this article could suggest that Isabelle Adjani launched a ‘call’ to women to remove their veil. What she didn’t formally do. She said there was no question of ‘not hearing the call’ of Iranian women. ‘This fight makes me want to expect women who wear the veil to remove it, all over the world, in solidarity with those who are killed, massacred, by doing this gesture’.”