. . . I'll often wonder whether the deviation to to appeal to the audience or the director. I assume it's usually the director, and we're finding out how often I was right.
Posted on 12/19/2017 5:19:54 AM PST by simpson96
Stage and screen star Sir Ian McKellen has spoken out about the sex scandal in film and theatre,claiming women are partly responsible because some tell directors they'll sleep with them to win roles.
'People must be called out and it's sometimes very difficult for victims to do that,' the Lord Of The Rings star said in a talk at the Oxford Union recently.
'I hope we're going through a period that will help to eradicate it altogether. But from my own experience, when I was starting acting in the early Sixties, the director of the theatre I was working at showed me some photographs he got from women who were wanting jobs. . . some of them had at the bottom of their photograph 'DRR' — directors' rights respected. In other words, if you give me a job, you can have sex with me.
'That was commonplace from people who proposed that they should be a victim. Madness. People have taken advantage of that and encouraged it and it absolutely will not do.'
Despite his support for victims coming forward, the six-time Olivier Award-winner, 78, admitted he's worried about the impact of wrongful accusations, adding: 'I assume nothing but good will come out of these revelations, even though some people get wrongly accused — there's that side of it as well.'
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Some actresses are rather bold when it comes to what they will offer up during the audition process.
But a man who is married, or otherwise pledged, must decline those offers.
Spread for bread.
Roll for role.
Regardless of his proclivities, he’s telling it like it is. If women are shoving it in your face, and men take it, then winge about it afterward, that’s just, well, typical for the fairer gender unfortunately.
. . . I'll often wonder whether the deviation to to appeal to the audience or the director. I assume it's usually the director, and we're finding out how often I was right.
Wow, I used to frequent Aintitcool before they went so totally, hard Left that it was unbearable....I hate that any assaults might have occurred, but what an insufferable, pompous a-hole he is....
I had a friend who was a salesman for a car dealership.
He made a VERY good living selling new cars to professors from colleges all over the state. Most are from UVA.
A middle aged prof would show up with a cute young thing and let her pick out a new car.
My friend did the paperwork and made sure the prof never had to worry about calls to him or paperwork sent to his house.
Very discrete fellow, my friend.
The last ten years he worked he never left his office except by appointment.
Academics and businessmen paid very well for polite discretion.
Oh yeah definitely. I saw a documentary on Hunger Games, and the director Gary Ross wouldn’t stop raving about her. It was totally over the top.
Aintitcoolnews
ScreenJunkies
Etc
Purges everywhere
May need to look at the gamergate or gamergirl scandal or whatever it was called to find the beginnings of this take down.
Were the #MeToo takedown comments regarding Bill Cosby a couple years ago an attempt at testing the lines of communication? Find a sexual harasser (and worse), expose him, and take down his legacy (discredit his talk against drugs, pulling up your pants, and being with your family and his reruns)?
The cycles of these seem to be several exposed harassers every day. Many of the charges are 10-20 or more years ago. Doesn’t mean that these things never happened, just questioning ‘why now’ is it suddenly a big story, a life changer? And the tactic is being used against Trump but it was being used before his candidacy. Even Anita Hill was given a fawning documentary from HBO and she toured school talking to girls.
Almost like groundwork was being laid.
‘Seriousness of the charge’. And the Clintons are still not cast out for their own slut shaming sins.
great actors, great celebrities, great politicians are not always great people.
I remember george will on Clinton. He my not be the worst president but he is the worst person to be president.
Harry was friends with Peter Jackson and Robert Rodriguez, both of whom knew about Harvey Weinstein’s harassment and blacklist activities. Harry used to harass Harvey online to see that Lord Of The Rings didn’t have producer interference.
My reaction during job interviews was the opposite. If someone dressed or acted in a manner that even hinted at non-professional considerations, there was zero chance of being hired. It was rare, once my reputation was established, but it happened. My guess is that anyone who thought there could be a casting couch for polling jobs would not have been hired based on ability.
yep, many of the White Knights who were so vocal during the height of the GamerGate fiasco had many skeletons in their own closets!
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