this day when Isabelle Adjani was boycotted by photographers

It is an act of rebellion that will forever remain in the annals of Cannes. On May 17, the 75th Cannes Film Festival will begin on the Croisette, a major cinema event where several films will try to win the coveted Palme d’Or. If it is obviously a question of cinema during this week, it is also an ideal place for the birth of unusual anecdotes on show business. And, while waiting to discover the new edition, where the mistress of ceremonies will be none other than Virginie Efira, back to May 10, 1983, where Isabelle Adjani was boycotted by photographers when climbing the stairs Killer Summer.

Already used to the Cannes Film Festival, where she had won a double prize for female interpretation in 1981, Isabelle Adjani attended the 36th Cannes Film Festival to present Jean Becker’s film, which won her the César for best actress the following year. . However, if she knows the very precise protocol that the teams of the films selected in Cannes must follow, the actress refuses to go to the photocall of Killer Summer with the rest of the team after the press conference. Disappointed with his behavior “diva”the photographers decide, by mutual agreement, to put their cameras on the ground upon her arrival on the red carpet and turn your back on the steps.

Isabelle Adjani “shocked” by this boycott

Thus, it is in calm and without the crackling of flashes that the actress climbed the steps that evening. Subsequently, the reason that will be given to explain his refusal to play the photocall game will be his desire to protect his private life and to protest against the intrusion of photographers. But, in the columns of Paris Match, in 2017, the star explains that the protest of the photographers was not directly linked to her, but to a change in the organization of the festival. After the inauguration of the new Palace, they were no longer allowed to enter. “They were really unhappy, and I served their cause without my knowledge”she explained, describing herself as “the perfect hostage, the one who has always fled the paparazzi”. However, this boycott was “a shock” for Isabelle Adjani, who said she had “cracked like the little girls unfairly punished when they were forced to pose in the family photo” once back in his hotel room.