That's absolutely correct....they were and still do 'compete'....however things are NOT looking well for most of Hollywood since they started speaking out politically....
Posted on 01/19/2018 8:26:40 PM PST by nickcarraway
Helen Mirren has a message for the Times Up movement: “Time's up? I would say it’s about time.”
The 72-year-old star said she couldn’t directly relate to the countless women abused in Hollywood because by the time she came to Hollywood she was already in her 30s — but she did admit being victim to sexual harassment when she was younger.
“I had never experienced that in Hollywood because I came to Hollywood I was in my 30s, I was too old,” she recalled to Willie Geist in a “Sunday Today” airing this weekend. “It doesn’t happen to you unless you are really young.”
“When I was between 16 and 23, 24, men would expose themselves to me, often. I would say about once a week. On the subway, on the tube, on the bus, walking down a road. And it's like, ugh,” Mirren said. “Weird, because it's not like you're going to go, ‘Oh my god, that's the most gorgeous thing I've ever seen.’ It's the opposite. It's horror!”
Ann Curry: 'Today' had a 'climate of verbal sexual harassment'
Mirren elaborated on the Time's Up and Me Too movements, admitting it’s long overdue.
Reese Witherspoon used her time at the podium during the ELLE Women In Hollywood Celebration on Oct. 16, 2017 to shed some light on being sexually assaulted by a director at age 16. "I've had multiple experiences of harassment and sexual assault, and I don't speak about them very often, but after hearing all the stories these past few days and hearing these brave women speak up tonight, the things that we're kind of told to sweep under the rug and not talk about, it's made me want to speak up and speak up loudly because I felt less alone this week than I've ever felt in my entire career.", she added.
“The last four or five months there’s been an enormous shift going on. It’s been coming. I’d say ‘Time's Up? I would say well it’s about time,’ time's up, it’s taken a long time to get here.”
The longtime actress recently received a Golden Globes nomination for her role in “The Leisure Seeker,” which is due out Friday.
Mirren’s full interview with Geist will air on NBC on Sunday.
She is speaking specifically of 1960’s-70’s Britain, and especially London.
There was always a culture of extreme public drunkenness there, that persists. Its not usual to see that in the US, otherwise respectable blokes totally wasted in public.
If she was given to hanging out in bars I believe her, but it would go with a certain lifestyle.
Window shopping?
She’s a mental and moral midget.
But she is a very nice looking woman, even in her later years.
Any woman would be happy to look as good.
That said, true beauty is in your head, and in your heart. (Freeper gals are the best gals there are!)
She’s an actress Jim.....
***She has seen more Pricks than are on a Porcupine.***
As we used to say fifty years ago in the military,
“If she had as many sticking out as she has had sticking in, she would look like a porcupine!”
Well, "turn about" is fair play. Just think if all the women ... Oh! Too horrible to contemplate!
It’s Holly wood.....that’s just how they roll and will continue to...and they all know this despite their objections to get face time in the news.
That's absolutely correct....they were and still do 'compete'....however things are NOT looking well for most of Hollywood since they started speaking out politically....
What’s the difference between an actor in a Ferrari and a porcupine?
With the porcupine the prick’s on the outside.
Odd how most of the perps and vics are liberals.
And we hhaven’t reaally examined their pedo problem yet.
do they know how stupid they look?
That seems like a lot. Maybe it’s a European thing. I grew up in the Hollywood area and I never remember having guys expose themselves to me until maybe college age, but in France they did it more often on the street and such. Usually when workmen were having a pee, they’d see a girl coming, and turn and finish so that they could “show off.” They Always were smiling. Why do guys think this is such a wondrous thing to women? For girls, suddenly seeing a strange guy pee is not far behind in sexiness from watching a guy poop. No.
LOL!
She’s one of my favorite actresses. I wish they’d keep their political views to themselves. They spoil my viewing pleasure when they’re political jerks. But I do agree, this nasty exposing themselves and assaulting women (and men) is perverted. And I’m not talking about flirting. That’s different. The behaviors of these men are predatory. It has an entirely different vibe. It’s dirty old man behavior, and it’s illegal.
We didn’t have cell phones when I was in high school, but it never would have occurred to me that to send such a picture to a girl, and furthermore I would have known that any girl then would not be grateful to get such a picture.
“Then I heard her Political viewpoint.”
Yeah. Instant shrinkage.
She grew up in London. Big cities are usually more lax about behavior. I don’t doubt she was flashed if she used public transportation.
She's complaining about what are obviously skidrow bums and subway perverts as though this were "typical male behavior" likely to be encountered even amongst decent, hardworking, middle-class folks.
What Mirren experienced has nothing to do with "male privilege" or "feminism." Rather, it has to do with the fact that there are and have always been plenty of low-life scum out there (hardly newsworthy!) - but discussing it at this time (in the context of the "me-too" movement, etc.) is to imply that it is something that "all men" should "fess up to" and "dialog about."
In actual fact, a "true" feminist (i.e., one who believes that women are the physical and emotional equals of men) would mock Mirren's "story of victimhood," and instead tell her to "man up" and "knock those perverts on their asses."
Regards,
I would have chosen a different profession if I had to deal with weekly flashers.
It seems to imply this was before she was an actress. This was an England not the United States.
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