Hadewych Minis always plays the climate activist in the media, but her good friend Halina Reijn is now speaking out. “She flew all the way to New York for my birthday dinner!”
47-year-old Hadewych Minis is one of the many actresses who says she is very concerned about the climate. In fact, she has even demonstrated during Extinction Rebellion actions. “I was at the A12 demonstration in May. An orchestra played Beethoven’s seventh symphony. It set the tone, we come in peace,” she said last year.
Goosebumps
That climate demonstration was extremely emotional for Hadewych, because people do not realize how big the disaster is that we are facing, she says. And Beethoven’s symphony reinforced that feeling. “It gave me goosebumps. But they hadn’t finished playing when the water cannons started spraying.”
The police have gone too far with this, according to Hadewych. “I was shocked by that. Naive perhaps, but I didn’t expect the police to deploy it so quickly. That felt unfair. Especially because during the farmers’ protests, which involved a lot of violence, no water cannon was seen.”
Birthday
So quite activist. That is why Hadewych will not be happy that Halina is now making mistakes in an interview. In it she says that she celebrated her 49th birthday exuberantly. “Yes, thanks to Nicole (Kidman, ed.). We were out together for a weekend at screenings when she asked: your birthday is coming up, what are you going to do?”
She continues in it A.D: “I replied that we were busy promoting Babygirl, so there was little time, but that I do feel homesick on my birthday, because my friends and family are in the Netherlands. A day later she said: ‘I’m going to organize a dinner for you, invite everyone you want to be there.’”
To New York
Nicole is worth $250 million and Halina isn’t exactly getting rich from her breakthrough in the US, so she didn’t say that twice. “My sister Leonore and friends Hadewych Minis and Esmé Wekker immediately flew to New York; it was the first time since I have lived here that such close loved ones were with me.”
It was a beautiful evening, she adds de Volkskrant. “It was incredibly nice to see those two worlds together. I thought it was very loving of Nicole to organize this for me. Because I obviously don’t have a partner, it’s very nice that she did that. So that was actually a very moving situation.”
Guilty?
Doesn’t Hadewych feel guilty? It seems not. She also rejected previous criticism of her flying friend Carice van Houten, also a climate activist.
“A better environment really starts with Shell, Tata Steel and all those other companies.”