Emmanuelle Seigner, the wife of Roman Polanski, his snub at the Oscars

Last May, Roman Polanski, who admitted to having bad with a minor in 1977 and is still being prosecuted for bad crime in the United States, was expelled from the Academy of Oscars. Following the scandal of the Weinstein affair, it has indeed adopted a code of conduct aimed at curbing badual harbadment in the film industry. But the actions of the French-Polish director go against him. His wife, Emmanuelle Seigner, always there to defend her husband, grabbed Instagram to denounce this " hypocrisy ".

Protest that she reiterates today while the Academy of Oscars has just proposed to join her ranks. An offer " injurious " according to Emmanuelle Seigner who decided to respond to the organization in an open letter.

" The American Academy of Arts and Sciences of Cinema offers me to join it, along with other actresses, in the name of feminization otherwise necessary. Who can believe that I do not feel concerned by the equality of women and men? begins the actress. " Feminist, I have always been, but how can I pretend to ignore that the Academy, a few weeks ago, kicked out my husband, Roman Polanski, to satisfy the air of the time. The same Academy had awarded him the Oscar for Best Director for The Pianist in 2003. Curious Amnesia ".

So far, no question for the 52-year-old actress of " forget that she has been married for twenty-nine years with one of the greatest directors. I love him, he is my husband, the father of my children. They reject him as a pariah and unseen academicians who think that I could climb the steps of glory behind his back? Unbearable hypocrisy! "She continues by claiming to be" the only one able to testify how much he regrets what happened forty years ago ". And to conclude, " Roman is nothing this machismo caricature, symptom of the evil that would ravage the cinema ".

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