“My father was more in…”: Isabelle Adjani’s niece opens up like never before about the actress’s missing brother

An immense loss… On December 25, 2010, it was at the age of twelve that Zoé Adjani lost her father, Éric Hakim. At 53, Isabelle Adjani's little brother is in fact died of a heart attack. Tuesday December 10, 2024, Zoé Adjani gave an interview to Le Figaro. While his father was a photographer, assistant director for Marguerite Duras and an actor and his mother was a documentary producer, she made rare confidences about them.

“She knows the difficulty of this profession, my father was more into creative madness. I have this mix, stone and passion! Very young, I was carried around on film sets”she said. On October 7, 2021, in the columns of Paris Match, the young actress confided: “I get most of my character from my dear dad who was very rebelliousvery angry, an anger that ended up devouring him. He didn't find a way to express it and she turned against him.”.

Zoé Adjani: “You can imagine the harm that can do!”

In complete transparency, she declared: “With my aunt Isabelle, we talk about him, sometimes, when we manage to do so, she like me. It's not easy. Lots of upset stories… I lost my father, she lost her little brother. You can imagine the harm that can do!”.

With the name she bears, the young actress has continued to be questioned since her childhood. “I am proud of my work and would like to receive praise, even if it starts, for reasons other than this name. I have often been advised to change it. Do you realize? Crossing out my father's name while I do all this for him!“she said.

Zoé Adjani: “Putting my heritage in there”

In the columns of the magazine Au Féminin, it was with great emotion that Zoé Adjani spoke of the one who left her on Christmas Day. “My father died when I was 12 so that had a lot to do with what I wanted to keep from him.putting my heritage in there and what I want to highlight. We never ask anyone to change their last name in relation to their professional sector. Except for actors, because it’s a particular profession, there is a spotlight…”she analyzed.

In 2018, in an interview with the Swiss magazine L'illustré, Isabelle Adjani also spoke about the death of Éric Hakim.
“He was a gifted person, ultravulnerable, ultrasensitive. He was trapped. I was his nurse very early on, even though we were only two years apart. It's a terrible failure not to be able to help someone you love get through it…”she lamented.