Isabelle Adjani confides on her difficult childhood

"It was very hard," admits Isabelle Adjani about her childhood, in an interview with "Les Inrocks" magazine. His father, Mohammed Chérif Adjani, was an Algerian mechanic, recruited by the French army during the Second World War. He met Emma Schweinberger in Germany during his military service. Isabelle Adjani says, "My mother did not have a profession. She was taken away, almost abducted, when she was 25, by my father who was 18. They were very beautiful. She already had two small children. He convinced her to follow him, was threatened to achieve his ends … She was a hostage, a hostage who could not forgive her kidnapper. "

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Surviving

Threatening, his father was also with Isabelle Adjani. "Throughout my childhood and adolescence, he asked me to lower my eyes to men, not to point out me, not to show how I felt," says the actress. And to add: "So, this job that I found myself doing was an incredible break-in." But being an actress was mostly a way to escape, including the influence of his mother, who did not want her do gym, dance or music. "She had no special ambition for me. She had not succeeded in her life as a woman, she just did not have to find that I would succeed in mine. (…) I quickly realized that I was in danger. I felt that I was going to flee through theater, literature. And I continued to believe that one had to dream to survive. "