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French actress Emmanuelle Seigner announces she refuses to join the Academy of Oscars to protest against the exclusion by this organization of her husband, the director Roman Polanski, in an open letter published by the "Journal du dimanche "
" The American Academy of Arts and Sciences of Cinema offers me to join her, 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? ",
" Curious amnesia "
" 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 spirit of the times.The same Academy had rewarded him with the Oscar for best director for The Pianist in 2003. Curious amnesia! ", she continues.
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"This Academy probably thinks that I am a sufficiently up-and-coming actress, without character, to forget that she has been married for twenty-nine years to one of the greatest directors. My husband, the father of my children, is rejected as an outcast and invisible academics think that I could 'climb the steps of glory' behind her back, unbearable hypocrisy! ", she denounces.
Calling this proposal "insulting", she claims to be "the only one able to testify how much he (Polanski, ed) regrets what happened forty years ago". Roman Polanski pleaded guilty in 1977 to the embezzlement of a minor for having an illegal relationship with a 13-year-old girl. At the end of an amicable agreement, more serious charges including the rape of a 13-year-old under the influence of narcotics were dropped.
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The Board of Governors of the Academy announced last May 3 the expulsion of Polanski and the fallen comedian Bill Cosby, convicted of badual badault. The decision complied with the new code of conduct adopted by the prestigious institution, in the aftermath of the Harvey Weinstein affair.
"Roman is nothing like this machismo caricature, a symptom of the evil that ravages the cinema", concludes the l 52-year-old actress.
Following this deportation, Polanski's US lawyer (84), Harland Braun, threatened to sue the Academy, ruling that she had failed to comply with the procedure. the absence of a prior hearing of his client.
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