French actress and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg called for the immediate return of the Israeli hostages who have been held captive by Hamas since October 7 in a video posted on Sunday on the Bring Them Home Now Instagram page of the families of the hostages.
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"Eden, Shiri, Romi, Noa, Naama, Inbar, Judy, Karina, Arbel, Carmel, Daniel, Doron, Agam, Amit Esther, Liri," the acclaimed actress read the names of the Israeli abductees.
"These women were abducted from a music festival by men from the Hamas on October 7. Men the UN just recently condemned for their sadistic sexual assaults. These women are subjected to horrors we can’t even imagine. Physical and sexual violence against women should not be tolerated, regardless of ethnicity, race or politics. Let the world know their names. Bring them home now!"
Charlotte Gainsbourg, the daughter of the late English actress Jane Birkin and the late singer Serge Gainsbourg, is best known for her appearances in films directed by Lars von Trier, her cinematic patron, including Antichrist, Melancholia and Nymphomaniac.
Other prominent films in which she participated in the past are 21 Grams by Alejandro González Iñárritu (2003), Dream Sciences by Michel Gondry (2006) and Samba by the creators of Connected to Life, Olivia Nakash and Eric Toledano. In 2017, she played in Yosef Seder's film Norman: The Moderate Rise and Steep Fall of an American Producer.