At the age of 34, Adele Hennel is ending her acting career: “I decided to politicize my stop in cinema.”

34-year-old actress Adele Hanel no longer wants to be a part of French cinema. After her last big screen role with Jean Dujardin in 2019, the actress decided to retire to engage in political activism.

“There is no hope in the film industry as it is today. You can see it in the way women are treated. They use one or two to hide the nakedness of an oppressive system. Just look at the skin choices. They say they are fighting sexism, but nothing has really changed. Those in power continue to oppress us. We always reward the bullies and they want me to shut up? Never.”He hit the pillars Ill Manifesto in May 2022.

A year later, on May 9, 2023, Télérama magazine published A Portrait of Adele Hennel His challenge “A break with the 7th art” And his new fighter fight. “He asserts this strongly and asserts it politically in the letter he sent us in response to our request for an interview: he has decided to turn his back on French cinema.”explains in the article.

The actress, who won two Césars for her performances in Suzanne and Les Combattants, responded to Télérama. open letter Published on the magazine’s website.

“I decided to politicize my stop in cinema to denounce the profession’s general complacency towards sexual assaulters and, in general, how this media cooperates with the deadly racist ecocidal order that it is.” east”– says Adele Hennel.

I decided to politicize my stop at the cinema to denounce the trade’s general distaste for sex offenders.

“Let’s be clear: while biodiversity is collapsing, Europe’s militarization is struggling, hunger and misery continue, what is this obsession of the world of cinema, collegiately united in the Caesars, to promote its films, that it wants. stay light first of all talk about nothing”he protests.

According to the artist, “Continuing to make this system desirable is criminal.” It is relevant: under capitalism, no one has a viable future in the short term. It is necessary to sound this alarm as loudly as possible. But they and during this time they all join hands together to save face Depardieuof Georgia Polanskiof Georgia Buttoned.”

“It bothers them, it bothers them that the victims are making too much noise, they prefer to continue to disappear and die in silence. They are willing to do anything to protect their main abusers, who are so rich that they believe in themselves. The highest species, those who in this They make a show of superiority by drowning in pig noise, objectifying women and subordinates.Adele Hennel emphasizes.

I leave, on strike, to join my comrades for whom the search for meaning and dignity takes precedence over money and power.

“Faced with the bourgeoisie’s monopoly of speech and finance, I have no other weapons than my body and my integrity. Abolish culture in the first sense: you have money, power and all the glory, you shout about it, but win. I have no spectator. I will cut you out of my world . I’m going, I’m going on strike, I’m joining my comrades, for whom the search for meaning and dignity is a priority over money and power.”sings the actor.

If he definitely stops the cinema, the actor continues his theatrical collaboration with the artist Giselle Wien.

“In the face of separation, emptiness and cruelty that the film industry establishes as an operating principle, the meaning, work and beauty that it constantly portrays is the light that allows me to keep faith in what is power. art can mean”Adele Haenel concluded.