PARIS (AP) — Oscar-winning actors Marion Cotillard and Juliette Binoche, in addition to different French stars of display screen and music, filmed themselves chopping off locks of their hair in a video posted Wednesday in help of protesters in Iran.
“For freedom,” Binoche mentioned as she hacked a big handful of hair off the highest of her head with a pair of scissors, earlier than brandishing it in entrance of the digicam.
The video, hashtagged HairForFreedom, comes with Iran engulfed by anti-government protests. They have been sparked by the loss of life of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after her arrest for allegedly violating the Islamic Republic’s strict gown code.
The video of Cotillard, Binoche and dozens of different ladies chopping off locks of their hair was launched on an Instagram account, “soutienfemmesiran” — which interprets as “help ladies in Iran.”
“These ladies, these males are asking for our help. Their braveness and their dignity obliges us,” mentioned a submit with the video.
“We now have determined to answer the attraction made to us by chopping — us too — a few of these locks.”
A few of the different ladies who took half included actors Charlotte Rampling and Charlotte Gainsbourg, who was additionally filmed chopping off a lock of hair from the top of her mom, singer Jane Birkin.
