A month after cutting a lock of hair in solidarity with Iranian women challenging the rule of the mullahs, Isabelle Adjani reiterated her message. She and she ask this Monday on franceinfo women around the world who wear the veil “to take it off”.
“This struggle of Iranian women makes me hope that the women who wear the veil will take it off, all over the world, in solidarity with those who are killed, massacred, by making this gesture,” she explains.
Like Marion Cotillard or Juliette Binoche, the actress participated in a video at the beginning of October in which a lock of hair was cut to support the protest movement born after the death of the Iranian student Mahsa Amini.
Indeed, Iran has been rocked by protests since the death on September 16 of this young Iranian Kurdish woman, who died three days after her arrest in Tehran by morality police who accused her of violating the country’s strict dress code. country, which in particular provides for the wearing of the veil in public.
“The World is Bad”
“What we have done with this gesture is simply to send Iranian women a message that can give them a bit of strength,” Isabelle Adjani told franceinfo about her decision to cut a lock of hair.
“The world is bad,” the actress said again. “There have never been so many people with mental disorders in power in so many countries.” And she added: “It is not we who are going to change the policy of the mullahs and give them back their human reason.”
Isabelle Adjani is on view Monday in a major new historical series about Diane de Poitiers, the most famous and intriguing courtesan of the Renaissance, who hoped to maintain her beauty by drinking pure gold.
Source: BFM TV
