In 2020, Adèle Haenel had risen, then broken, from the 2020 Césars ceremony, to denounce the awards received by Roman Polanski, targeted by multiple accusations of rape, including on a minor. This time, it is French cinema that it rises and breaks.
"I decided to politicize my stop from cinema to denounce the widespread complacency of the profession vis-à-vis sexual aggressors and, more generally, the way in which this environment collaborates with the deadly racist ecocide order of the world as it is," she said in a letter published Tuesday by the magazine Télérama.
"I cancel you from my world"
This letter from the actress follows requests from the magazine which, as part of a journalistic investigation, sought to know if her absence from the screens since her coup d'éclat at the Césars was suffered or chosen. The actress had been more discreet in the cinema, appearing nevertheless in public in recent weeks during several mobilizations against the pension reform.
"Cancel culture in the first sense: you have the money, the strength and all the glory, you gargle about it, but you will not have me as a spectator. I cancel you from my world. I leave, I go on strike, I join my comrades for whom the search for meaning and dignity takes precedence over that of money and power," she also wrote in her letter.
In 2019, the actress revealed by the film The Demons, had accused in an investigation of Mediapart, the director Christophe Ruggia of having assaulted and sexually harassed her from his 12 to his 15 years. Since then, she has become one of the faces of feminist and queer struggles. But not only, we also saw him alongside the Adama Committee or on the picket line of the Gonfreville-l'Orcher refinery.