2024-02-23 21:46:00
By Claire Legrand
A journalist of Belarusian origin, Claire has worked at Purepeople since 2019. An unconditional fan of the Sex And The City series, she also knows most of the RnB sounds of the 90s and 2000s by heart. Blue flower and eternal romantic, she is interested in everything particularly to the love lives of stars.
Very angry with the director Bruno Dumont whose film “The Empire” is currently in theaters, the actress Adèle Haenel revealed the underside of their estrangement and the reasons which pushed her to refuse to play in this feature film. For his part, Bruno Dumont confided his feelings on this matter. Two very different versions.
“He said things to me like…” Adele Haenel dropped the film L’Empire by Bruno Dumont because of the director, she says
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Currently at the cinema, The Empire by Bruno Dumont is in competition at the Berlin Film Festival. Crazy film which evokes UFOs, its filming experienced some twists and turns, particularly in terms of casting. Initially chosen as headliner, actress Adèle Haenel preferred to withdraw from the film due to many choices made by the director, which she did not approve of at all.
To a German newspaper, the 35-year-old actress explained, according to our colleagues at Telerama : “It was a dark, sexist and racist world that was defended. The script was full of jokes about cancel culture and sexual violence. I sought to discuss it with Bruno Dumont, because I thought a dialogue was possible . I wanted to believe for the umpteenth time that it’s not intentional. But it is intentional […]. I didn’t want to support that, so I canceled my participation.”
Bruno Dumont felt let down by Adèle Haenel
For his part, Bruno Dumont had criticized the hasty departure of the actress from his film. A not very respectful attitude according to the director: “In 2022, I find Adèle Haenel, very angry with me, whereas until then, we got along very well” he confided. “She wanted to change the scenario that she had until then found completely crazy and delightful, accusing me in particular of being racist, because I only filmed with white people. She has the right to think so, but she took more than a year to do it. In 2020, she said she no longer wanted to do cinema but politics, but that she could not refuse my film. This totally unpredictable and incomprehensible about-face deeply saddened me , and gave everyone a blow.”
Questioned by our colleagues from Allociné, Adèle Haenel returned in more detail to this quarrel with Bruno Dumont. She thus confided having discussed the script with the director and asked for changes, which ultimately never happened : “After a year, I received the new script where not a single line had been changed, which is why I left the project. There are several people who can attest to this” she revealed.
Adèle Haenel, “simple” according to Bruno Dumont
Judging him”condescending“, she confides that she did not feel comfortable with this director, a little too denigrating for her taste: “He pretended to forget the first names of the other well-known actresses involved in the project, and to only hire them with regret. I have the impression that he imagined that he was going to create a bond with me through this hackneyed power game. He would say things to me like: ‘I’m going to erase you’, ‘What can you do?’, ‘Can’t you separate yourself from your social persona? ‘ That kind of thing. However, he didn’t seem to know my work so I imagine that if he had come to look for me it was precisely for what he called my social persona.
To conclude, she adds having been judged “simplette” by Bruno Dumont and having regretted the casting of the film: “What does it mean for a science fiction film depicting humanity and its intergalactic cousins where the entire cast is white?” Visibly deep-rooted resentment between the actress and the director…
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