What is the ruling on a woman working as an actress, whether she removes her hijab or works while wearing the hijab, given what acting involves in terms of indecent language and scenes of kissing, embracing, and the actress sleeping with the actor in one bed?
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A woman's work in acting, if she is unveiled and immodest, is undoubtedly forbidden. Similarly, her work in acting—even if she wears a —is forbidden due to the evils it entails.
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