Adèle Haenel and others walk out of the 2020 César Awards to protest Roman Polanski's win

[ms_mmelissa]

A l'annonce du César de la Meilleure Réalisation pour Roman Polanski ("J'accuse"), Adèle Haenel quitte la salle.

Le meilleur des #César2020 > https://t.co/ipnVwouBeV pic.twitter.com/7xa0CTbU3H
- CANAL+ (@canalplus) February 28, 2020

• French actress Adèle Haenel who last year revealed that as a child she was the victim of sexual harassment from

Comments

[vikingsmn]

Good on everyone who walked out!
Also, I read Aïssa Maïga called out the industry and Vincent Cassel specifically, who was in the audience, on stage about the roles offered to black actors. Hopefully someone has a better translation, haven't been able to find one beyond broken google translations.

[ms_mmelissa]

Hahaha I just watched it.

So basically she comes out on stage and says "Here we are a big family" and then starts giving shout outs to the black actors in the audience. And says "Sorry I can't help myself, every time I'm at a big event like this I can't help recognizing all the black actors. Sorry I forgot one. Vincent Cassel. You were the black one in cinema before diversity."

This is in reference to the fact that Cassel (who is white and French cinema dynasty) had his big breakout role in this film about the suburbs of Paris and youth culture when in actuality most people in the Parisian suburbs are poc who have been marginalized and pushed out of the city centre. IDK it's like making a film about Brooklyn starring a white kid.

There's more call outs but that's the Cassel part.

Also it's super awkward NO ONE IS LAUGHING WITH HER.

[vikingsmn]

Thank you!

[genbu_no_miko24]

I think her point Vincent Cassel’s part is pretty fair and not as inflammatory as people are making(?) it out to be.

[ms_mmelissa]

It's like the equivalent of a slightly more subtle "Emma Stone is Asian" dig. But given how white French cinema is, how Cassel is French cinema royalty and how the movie is older than his child bride I can see why it went down like a lead balloon.

[genbu_no_miko24]

I knew his dad was famous before him but I had no idea they were considered cinema royalty?! 😯

[genbu_no_miko24]

Yeah I knew about that but I’m still surprised to see they’re considered acting royalty in France since they’re kinda random?

[numbedtoe]

dear god. someone give monica bellucci all the money, all of it, to write a tell all. i know she never would, or probably wouldn't going by her personality and things she's said in the past, but my god i have a feeling this woman has seen some shit.

[doriiansz]

Just when I thought I couldn't love her more ❤️❤️❤️

[numbedtoe]

damn stan a little bit.

[dramas_queen]

Adding to this, I didn't know about this either but Cassel has apparently been dating/fetishising black women for a very long time so there could be even more to what Aïssa was saying