Leïla Slimani
speaker
494 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 22 Aug
Leïla Slimani’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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No, absolutely not.
Yeah, exactly.
I think that for Midi, for the character, it's a... That's the father, yeah.
Yeah, it's an extraordinary gesture of love.
You know, I think that there's not a better proof of love than...
preferring the freedom of your child than your child to be with you.
In a way, he sacrifices himself because he knows he's not going to see her again and that she's going to live her own life, but he wants her to be free.
And my parents always wanted us to be free.
So when we left, they didn't say don't come back because they were very attached to Morocco and I'm very attached to Morocco.
But they said, now you go and invent yourself, do something of your life, be free and try to use this freedom in the best way you can.
And I felt a sort of vertigo.
It was not easy.
And sometimes I was angry against my parents because I wanted them to tell me what to do and who to be and what was my identity, what I was supposed to behave like.
And my mother, she would always say, no, we will not answer those questions.
You have to find your own way in the world.
So
That's how I understood that freedom is the most beautiful thing in the world, but it's also very difficult.
You have to be able to sacrifice a lot of things.
And that's what his father is trying to teach her.
You know, I think I had to accept that people would not like me.
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