Ebrahimi is no stranger to Iran’s 'morality laws.' She fled the country for France 14 years ago after an intimate film she made with a previous partner was leaked
, who strangled 16 sex workers, typically with their headscarves, from 2000 to 2001.
In Abbasi’s eyes, Ebrahimi—who went on to win the Best Actress award at Cannes in May for her performance and is—was too soft and mature to play the young and reckless character he had in mind. “He wanted someone boyish, more strong physically,“ Ebrahimi recalls, adding that she was working as a producer on the project and had auditioned around 50 actors for the role she would go on to claim.
It was the holy month of Ramadan when Ebrahimi’s sex tape was leaked but she says this did not deter people from watching her intimate moments play out on video. “People were meant to be praying, instead they were watching me. Every day I became more and more surprised by the way society behaved, even my colleagues were watching together,” Ebrahimi recalls.to protect herself, as the regime put her life under a microscope.
But these attitudes may be changing, thanks in part to the women-led demonstrations. Both Ebrahimi and Abbasi say they have noticed a distinct shift in the way the film has been received on the fall film festival circuit since protests began.Abbasi says that some of the international and Iranian viewers who saw the film at Cannes initially felt they were exploiting the tragedy to create a needlessly violent movie.
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