You mean an up an coming actress, can hire someone else to have sex with Weinstein, to get the part? /sarc>
Posted on 12/21/2019 7:50:21 AM PST by C19fan
The actress shocked fans of her Showtime drama when she suddenly quit the role that earned her a Golden Globe, then said she wasn't allowed to say why. Now, insiders reveal a complex situation that involved complaints of a hostile work environment, Lena Dunham, and a director and showrunner who sparked a formal investigation.
In the summer of 2018, actress Ruth Wilson stunned fans and the television industry at large when she abruptly left The Affair, the Emmy-nominated Showtime drama in which she starred, with no explanation. Days after her departure, the actress embarked on an awkward press tour for an upcoming film. Asked repeatedly about her mysterious exit from the show, she would only drop baiting hints. "It isn't about pay parity, and it wasn't about other jobs, [but] I'm not really allowed to talk about it," she told The New York Times in August 2018, urging the reporter to contact showrunner Sarah Treem: "There is a much bigger story."
That bigger story, it turns out, is much like the Rashomon-style narrative of the show itself, which explored different character perspectives on the same events and let the audience decide who might be the unreliable narrator. The Hollywood Reporter interviewed many of those involved in Wilson's exit and the events that precipitated it. Many say Wilson, who is restrained by an NDA, had long wanted to leave the show because of ongoing frustrations with the nudity required of her, friction with Treem over the direction of her character, and what she ultimately felt was a "hostile work environment," later the subject of a previously unreported 2017 investigation by Showtime parent company CBS.
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My only thought on this was: I wonder how the porn industry deals with “sexual harassment.”
I have absolutely no problem with an actress (or actor) refusing to do nudity. In fact I highly admire any actress (or actor) who takes that position.
I am surprised that the various actor’s unions don’t put a stop to coercion to agree to nudity or to simulate sex to get jobs. Why pressure stars to do these things if body doubles are willing? As for me, I don’t want to see any of it.
She did both in the first episode.
You mean an up an coming actress, can hire someone else to have sex with Weinstein, to get the part? /sarc>
The actor’s unions should put a stop to the casting couch too. What good is being in a union if the “Company” is still allowed to exploit the workers?
Maybe the union has a “grievance” couch?
It’s called The Affair. She’s worried about what?
“I have absolutely no problem with an actress (or actor) refusing to do nudity”
Depends on what’s in the contract they signed.
Ruth Wilson is starring in the British production of “His Dark Materials.” She also played the psycho Alice Morgan, in “Luther” with Idris Alba. The last thing I saw her in was “Mrs. Wilson”, a TV series in which she played the role of her own grandmother, who after the death of her husband, found that he had led several secret lives. Alison Wilson met her husband during WWII, when she worked as his secretary at MI6. After his death, she tried in vain to learn more about her husband’s secret work. To this day, MI5 refuses to release his file. “Mrs. Wilson” has been shown on PBS.
They're probably all homos, so good luck with that.
Yup. Doe eyes and tears don’t work when you know full well what’s going on.
They film it of course.
...say Wilson, who is restrained by an NDA, had long wanted to leave the show because of ongoing frustrations with the nudity required of her, friction with [showrunner Sarah] Treem over the direction of her character, and what she ultimately felt was a "hostile work environment," later the subject of a previously unreported 2017 investigation by Showtime parent company CBS.
Ms. Wilson reminds me of post-plastic-surgery Melissa Gilbert.
A rather nasty looking person, hope her personality is not as bitchy as her looks imply.
Maybe she’s a nice person in real life. I’d never heard of her until seeing this article.
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