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British Actress Ruth Wilson called out Hollywood’s inconsistency in the #MeToo era, in an interview with The Guardian on Saturday.
Wilson starred in the tv shows “Luther: and “The Affair”. She called out Hollywood’s actions during the Harvey Weinstein era when the whole industry was complicit in protecting the powerful.
She said that history is what made the #MeToo movement so “extraordinary” to witness.
She expressed her disappointment in Hollywood’s hypocrisy, including its attempt to turn a blind eye to people like Weinstein, who knew “how to get people Oscars.”
“To see the survival instinct,” she said. “You realize how fickle that industry is. There’s no moral backbone. People were like, ‘We’re going to have a meeting about how badly we’ve behaved and then we’ll all be fine.’ It blew my mind.”
“It made me understand a whole swathe of human behavior,” she added. “So many people don’t really believe anything – only what makes them money. They’re opportunists. You see that. But it makes you sage about what you want, what’s important. Do you want to live in that world?”
Fox News reported:
Wilson has often spoken out about political and social issues, including Hollywood’s treatment of actresses while filming sex scenes, including her own experiences, which reportedly prompted her abrupt departure from Showtime’s “The Affair” in 2018.
She has never discussed the reasons behind her decision to leave the show, but it was reported she was bound by a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) and alleged the set was “a hostile work environment” where Wilson was pressured by female series producer Sarah Treem into filming sex scenes she was uncomfortable with.
“Over and over again, I witnessed Sarah Treem try to cajole actors to get naked even if they were uncomfortable or not contractually obligated to,” a production insider said at the time.
“It’s things you would think would be coming out of a man’s mouth from the 1950s.”
Treem said she is a “feminist” and maintains she “would never say those things to an actor.”
The Guardian asked Wilson if there is ever an appropriate situation for an NDA, to which she responded, “No.”
“I don’t think there should be any NDAs,” she said. “If there’s a problem, there’s a problem. It needs to be dealt with, not put under NDA so you can’t speak about it.”
NPR reported:
Disgraced former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 16 more years in prison by a Los Angeles judge Thursday. He was convicted there in December on three charges of rape and sexual assault. Separately, the 70-year-old is already serving a 23-year prison sentence for rape and sexual assault in New York — meaning that it is very likely that Weinstein will now spend the rest of his life in prison.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lisa Lench ordered this second sentence to be served consecutively, meaning that it will start after Weinstein completes his 23-year sentence in New York.
The woman whose testimony provided the basis of his conviction was referred to during the Los Angeles trial as “Jane Doe #1.” The woman is a European model whom Weinstein raped during a film festival in Los Angeles in Feb. 2013.
