French actor Adèle Haenel, who has for years spoken out against sexual abuse in the film industry, has announced she was giving up movie acting over the industry's "complacency" to societal issues, reports FRANCE 24.
Haenel, whose role in "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" (2019) brought her international recognition, also hit out at "the way that cinema cooperates with capitalism".
The 34-year-old, who has won France's highest César film award twice, in 2019 went public with a description of sexual assault she suffered at the hands of a film director with whom she worked as a teenager, and who she said had "a hold" over her.
In 2020 she made a noisy exit at the Césars ceremony in protest against an award for director Roman Polanski who is wanted by the US over statutory rape allegations.
In a letter to culture weekly Télérama first published on Tuesday, Haenel said she wanted to "denounce the general complacency in our industry towards sexual abusers".
She also said she rejected "how this business collaborates with the global, deadly, ecocidal and racist world order", capitalism.
See more of this AFP report, with video, published by FRANCE 24.