Posted on 10/22/2009 12:32:55 PM PDT by Perdogg
The Academy award-winning actor Nicole Kidman used an appearance before the US Congress to accuse Hollywood of contributing to violence against women by portraying them as sex objects.
Kidman was speaking yesterday in her role as a UN ambassador to a House foreign affairs subcommittee that is considering legislation to tackle violence against women overseas.
When asked by Republican representative Dana Rohrabacher whether the film industry "played a bad role" in the way it portrayed women, Kidman replied "Probably", before going on to say that she refused to take roles that portrayed women as weak sex objects. "I can't be responsible for all of Hollywood, but I can certainly be responsible for my own career."
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She’s part of Hollywood. Is this a confession?
He was asking a question that he already knew the answer too. Nicole just confirmed it.
She played Sam Neil’s wife in a movie where she was raped by Billy Zane. I guess she forgot.
Does Nicole take responsibility for picking ding bat husbands?
Is Congress now going to regulate Hollywood?
“The Academy award-winning actor Nicole Kidman used an appearance before the US Congress to accuse Hollywood of contributing to violence against women by portraying them as sex objects.”
Says the actress who was in Eyes Wide Shut. lol
Her whole career is based on her looks, period.
Time to get off your high horse honey, you aren’t that good an actress to make it on skills alone.
she looked good in that movie.
Here’s the thing. Men will look on women as sex objects with or without Hollywood’s help. This has little to do with violence, since men always have, and always will, look on women as sex objects. Other factors must be looked to in explanation as to why one period of history has more or less violence than another.
Who knows, maybe Hollywood’s somewhat to blame for the levels of violence prevalent today. But it’s not because they treat women as sex objects. As I explained, all heterosexual men (and some homosexual men), violent or not, do so.
Pictures ONLY, please.
Well they already have ratings system, as if that matters.
The point is the moral decay of entertainment fare.
Didn’t Nicole do a gang rape scene in “Eyes Wide Shut”?
And how many takes did the director use until they were happy with the scene?
Why not, turn about is fair play, Hollywood has regulated who went to DC for years...
Harvey Keitel was originally in “Eyes Wide Shut”.
There was an orgy scene and unfortunately for Nicole, Harvey is a “method actor”.
Guess why Cruise got him fired and all of his scenes reshot using another actor....:)
there is solution to this, don’t buy a ticket and turn it off.
“Her whole career is based on her looks, period.
Time to get off your high horse honey, you aren’t that good an actress to make it on skills alone.”
Funny thing is, they gave her an Oscar once she made herself a little bit ugly. Seriously. She put on a fake nose to play Virginia Woolf in “The Hours,” and BAM!, there’s your award. I can’t perceive and difference between it and any other of her performances besides the nose.
That was a great film.
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