Partly? When it comes to the “casting couch”, the guilt is mutual, and the only victims are the actresses who we never hear of because they don’t trade their favors for major roles and thus don’t get major roles. When it comes to force, the victims are the women raped, and they are not to blame.
In some cases, he’s right. Ashley “I’m a nasty woman” Judd wasn’t quite so nasty to Harvey Weinstein’s advances when she knew a starring role was on the line.
I’ve heard accused sex harasser Harry Knowles say that Ian gets off on having boys coming up to him at “comic book” conventions.
Old queer.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/7222904/Sir-Ian-McKellen-facing-embarrassment-over-former-theatre-guild-member-with-paedophile-conviction.html
Sir Ian McKellen facing embarrassment over former theatre guild member with paedophile conviction (2010)
Sir Ian McKellen, who this week claimed government anti-paedophile measures are excessive, is facing embarrassment after the discovery that a former member of his theatre guild was jailed for having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy.
Sir Ian, The Lord of the Rings and X-Men actor, who is patron of the Little Theatre Guild, which represents more than 100 British theatres, earlier this week said that the Government’s new antipaedophile database, was unnecessary for theatres and that “there has never in the last 50 years been any hint of wrongdoing”...
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http://ew.com/article/1997/05/02/indecent-proposal-set-apt-pupil/
Was an indecent proposal made on Bryan Singer’s Apt Pupil set? (Entertainment Weekly 2010)
April 16 was not a good day for director Bryan Singer. On his way to the Sherman Oaks, Calif., set of Apt Pupil, his first film since The Usual Suspects, he got a flat tire on the Pacific Coast Highway. He dragged himself through a long shooting day while suffering from the flu and didn’t take a break until 6 p.m. And when he sat down to dinner with screenwriter Brandon Boyce, a crew member whispered some very bad news in his ear: A 14-year-old extra named Devin St. Albin had filed a lawsuit claiming that the filmmakers had ordered him and other minors to strip for a scene that was shot in the showers of a school locker room.
Two weeks earlier, on the morning of April 2, a dozen-odd extras had arrived at the gymnasium of Altadena’s Elliot Middle School to shoot a scene from Apt Pupil, the Stephen King adaptation starring Brad Renfro as a teenager obsessed with a Nazi war criminal (Ian McKellen). What actually happened after the extras entered the locker room has now become the subject of two lawsuits — two more boys are now supporting St. Albin’s claim — and the centerpiece of an ongoing argument about the rights and welfare of child actors.
According to St. Albin, a 17-year-old plaintiff named Ryan Glomboske, and Peter Gordon, the attorney for a third minor, 16-year-old David Stockdale, the boys — local high school athletes recruited by the production — were asked to bring bathrobes to the set to film a nightmare sequence in which shower stalls turn into gas chambers. While the parents of the minors sat in the gym, the extras — who ranged in age from adolescents to geriatrics — were led into a locker room and instructed to change into sheer peach-colored G-strings provided by the wardrobe department. ”Nobody really said anything, but we looked at each other. We were uncomfortable,” says St. Albin. ”You could hear everyone saying ‘What the heck is that?”’ Glomboske remembers. ”People were nervous.”
According to St. Albin and Glomboske (who is joining his suit), the extras, wearing their robes over the G-strings, were ushered past the parents into the shower-room set, where they were told to take off their bathrobes. Then, say St. Albin and Glomboske, they were asked by assistant directors Fernando Altschul and Tom DeSantos to remove their G-strings.
”I looked around for help, for someone to say, ‘There are minors here,”’ says St. Albin. ”I raised my hand and said I wasn’t comfortable. The assistant director looked very upset and said, ‘I guess we can switch you with this other kid.’ They gave me a towel to put on over the G-string” and moved him out of clear sight, next to the lockers.
Glomboske says that he moved closer to a shower head to shield himself but, unlike the other extras, did not remove his G-string. After filming the scene, Glomboske says he was approached by a frustrated assistant director, who asked him why he hadn’t undressed. ”I said I was a minor,” says Glomboske, who asserts that after an informal conference between crew members about what one of them called ”a minor problem,” he was assured that it was not illegal for him to be filmed nude.
But Glomboske says legalities weren’t foremost on his mind at the moment he was asked to unclothe. “If they had taken me aside, it would have been one thing,” says Glomboske. But “they got frustrated and came back and asked me in front of everyone if I minded taking it off. I felt like I would have been a wuss if I hadn’t.” All three teenagers are claiming trauma from the experience, charging the filmmakers with, among other things, infliction of emotional distress, negligence, and invasion of privacy.
I recall a scene from Californication where the actress threw herself at Hank during her audition. IRL he should have said no but it strains credulity to think that a) most men would have the willpower to say no and b) that it doesn’t happen on a frequent basis.
I don’t endorse the behavior but I am sick and tired of the misandry.
This happens in academia also. Women trade sexual favors or flirt for good grades. I saw women with big breasts shove them in front of the gullible professors to gain favor with them. Some of the women slept with the professors for good grades. I once fell out of favor with a resident when I told him to pay attention to teaching us instead of trying to get his wick wet on our time. He retaliated by giving me a “D” for the course that I didn’t deserve. Later after I graduated and he was teaching at another university at another state of which I was now a practice owner he mentioned that “let by gones be by gones”. Yea, he did because the shoe was on the other foot. I let it go. The “D” didn’t prevent me from becoming a veterinarian.
Ian always struck me as a little scary. Like “you don’t want to be alone with him” scary. I lived my entire young life around gays (literally) and I never felt any fear. But older gay men can be pushy, especially when you are a boy who looks like Mia Farrow. I made it a point to never be alone with anyone I suspected was that way.
Sex advice from a withered old fag. Yep, that’s credible.
There actresses Jim..
What would an old fag like him know about such things?...............
What would this creep know about women, marriage or the sex harassment of women? I can only imagine the skeletons in this guy’s closet. He was one of the worst of gay “outers” in the late 80s and 90s.
In olden days, when someone joined the stage, they brought shame to the family. It’s always been a perv infested industry.
Lay for an A. Same dynamic.
The ones accused are guilty.
Actors have been sleeping with each other forever to get er... parts. Some big and some small...
Google an actors name then dated to see who’s dated who and you will see how they are er popular.
Example: http://www.whosdatedwho.com/dating/january-jones
Sir Ian’s theory is laughable....when he got knighted, the sword-wielding Queen musta severed part of his brain.
Let me help you with that Ian———we’re no talking about starlets who WILLINGLY sleep with producers/directors/whatever.
The cases under discussion are about FORCED sexual assaults....women who told the assaulters they DID NOT WANT to have sex with them.
The men then forced them into it.....Russell Simmons, Bill Clinton Harvey Weinstein, to name a few. One woman was asleep when perverted Al Franken cupped her breasts.
Get it, Ian?
My personal guess is that at least 90% of the women in Hollywood have used sex as a career advancement strategy.
The feminist movement has been touting female sexual power over men for decades as their right to do whatever the hell they want with their bodies.
F’ing hypocrites and liars.
I’d suspect there might even be more who were not only open to advances but were making the advances themselves. Look at some of the dresses on the red carpet - it’s not difficult to see what they’re selling.
Very few on either side of the camera in Hollywood have any morals. If most actors or actresses thought they could get a part by sleeping with someone they’d be naked on the casting couch in the blink of an eye.
Stage and screen star Sir Ian McKellen has spoken ....,claiming women are partly responsible because some tell directors they’ll sleep with them to win roles.
....and President Trump is proven correct, again
The idea that all these women are pure innocent victims is totally disingenuous.
Women have been using their sex to manipulate men forever. What’s new today is their claim to victimhood after doing so.
What’s happening today is not so much a return to puritanism as a war on men and masculinity.
Feminazis want the freedom to act like sluts without the consequences. In other words they want men’s natural instinct to be totally caged while they should be free to act and parade in front of them provocatively.
Nowhere in today’s discussions is there any suggestions that women should bear any responsibility for what’s going on and dress and behave more modestly. The onus is all on men’s “toxic masculinity” and none on women’s “sluttissness”
It’s like putting all the blame on the lion that ends up eating the guy walking around the savanna with a hunk of bloody meat on his back.